Amazon Planning Huge Sunrise Fulfillment Center

Amazon wants to install one of its massive fulfillment centers in western Sunrise.

The fulfillment center, which would employ 1,000 full-time staffers, would be Amazon’s fourth in South Florida and will service orders from cities across the country, Amazon said Tuesday.

The Sunrise site is a vacant stretch of unoccupied land west of Hiatus Road, south of 50th Street and north of 44th Street, not far from the Sawgrass Mills mall and the BB&T Center, home of the Florida Panthers professional hockey team.

“There are many contributing factors that go into our thought process for identifying new fulfillment and delivery station locations,” Amazon said. “South Florida has a workforce with an abundance of talent. We’re also responding to customer demand, placing our fulfillment centers close to customers so we can offer great Prime service and fast shipping speeds.”

Foundry Commercial, which built Amazon’s 800,000-square-foot Opa-locka center in Miami-Dade, is expected to take 16 to 18 months to erect the center after the city were to grant its approvals. The completion date would likely land in the third or fourth quarter of 2022, an Amazon official said.

Amazon’s development application for Sunrise has yet to be formally reviewed by the city, which have yet to be scheduled.

 

Source:  SunSentinel