Amazon desires to plant a 4.2 million-square-foot warehouse growth in the course of Lengthy Island.
The Seattle-based e-commerce big has filed plans to construct two warehouses on 140 acres of woodland close to Dawn Freeway and Beacon Drive within the hamlet of Holbrook, east of Lengthy Island MacArthur Airport, Newsday reported.
The $1 billion achievement warehouse advanced can be its largest on Lengthy Island, and 21 instances bigger than any present facility there.
Plans name for 2 linked industrial buildings, open 24/7 and anticipated to attract 300 huge rigs a day.
They embody a 3.7-million-square-foot “sortable achievement middle” the place items can be saved earlier than being bought by clients and a 450,000-square-foot storehouse the place unbiased contractors’ autos would choose up purchased merchandise earlier than shuttling it to clients.
The proposed undertaking would require a zoning change to industrial from the City of Islip. Present zoning was modified from industrial to industrial greater than a decade in the past to mixed-use growth for a residential group that was by no means constructed.
Amazon plans to use for tax breaks from the Islip Industrial Growth Company, Brad Griggs, the agency’s director of financial growth for the Northeast, instructed Newsday. He stated the undertaking gained’t be constructed with out the tax aid.
The Holbrook land is owned by Scannell Properties, a developer primarily based in Indianapolis. Pending approvals from the City of Islip and different authorities companies, Amazon would purchase the property from Scannell for an undisclosed value, Griggs instructed the publication.
As soon as authorized, development would take between 18 and 24 months.
Amazon has 9 services totaling greater than 1 million sq. toes on Lengthy Island. Its largest facility is a 200,000-square-foot supply station in Syosset.
Along with the Holbrook web site, the corporate plans to construct a 150,348-square-foot distribution warehouse on nearly 27 acres in Massapequa, on the location of the vacant Dawn Mall. Approvals are pending within the City of Oyster Bay.
– Dana Bartholomew
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