Amazon.com’s fourth area location — a delivery station in Alta Lakes Commerce Center — continues its build-out to complement the e-commerce giant’s Jacksonville presence.
The city approved the addition of an overhead drive-thru door, concrete curb and associated equipment to the Amazon delivery center at a project cost of almost $120,000.
The permit refers to a 115,500-square-foot facility although a previous approval shows a 63,000-square-foot space for Amazon.com within the building.
Design Develop Construct LLC of Dayton, Ohio, is the contractor.
Since February, the city approved 10 permits totaling $2.65 million for build-out of the delivery station at 11084 Cabot Commerce Circle in Alta Lakes Commerce Center.
Those cover tenant build-out; roofing; plumbing; and electrical, air distribution and fire and alarm systems.
The Seattle-based e-commerce retailer said the delivery station opened this summer.
Amazon's first three locations comprise the two fulfillment centers that will create 5,000 full-time jobs in Northwest and West Jacksonville and a Westside sortation center.
A spokeswoman said hundreds of employees are being hired for the Westside Industrial Park sortation center. She did not say how many are employed at the delivery station.
Amazon has not disclosed the number of employees at the Westside Industrial Park sortation center, but zoning documents referred to 200.
Public filings show the North Jacksonville delivery station includes some office space. They explain that packages will be sorted between midnight and 6 a.m. and drivers may load 10-22 vans from 6-10 a.m.
The website for MWPVL International, a Montreal-based logistics consultant, reported Amazon launched the delivery distribution network four years ago.
The delivery stations are positioned near large metropolitan cities and often near airports. Jacksonville International Airport is about 10 miles from the Alta Lakes site.
The primary role of the stations is to sort packages for last-mile delivery to customers in a tightly defined area. The site said deliveries often are performed by multiple local courier companies contracted by Amazon.com.
Amazon opened its two fulfillment centers at Pecan Park Road and at Cecil Commerce Center.
The Pecan Park Road center near JIA is a multilevel, 2.4 million-square-foot facility that handles small consumer items. It opened Sept. 1.
The 1 million-square-foot Cecil Commerce Center warehouse distributes large goods. It opened Oct. 1.
The sortation center, at 237,000 square feet, opened at Westside Industrial Park.
MWPVL International explained that sortation centers take shipments from fulfillment centers, sort the goods by ZIP codes within a tightly defined market region and take the packages for delivery to the U.S. Postal Service, contracted couriers and delivery stations.
Meanwhile, the city waits to hear from Amazon about a bid for the company’s second headquarters. That project would bring 50,000 jobs and a $5 billion capital investment to the chosen site.
The Request for Proposals said Amazon would make a final site selection in 2018.
Amazon tweeted Monday it received 238 bids.
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