Internet retailer Amazon.com continues upgrading in Jacksonville as it prepares to add a platform and conveyor at its West Jacksonville fulfillment center at an estimated project cost of almost $13.78 million.
The city is reviewing a permit request for Designed Conveyor Systems LLC of Franklin, Tennessee, to demolish the existing conveyor and install a new one on an elevated platform at Amazon’s 1.1 million-square-foot center at 13333 103rd St. in Alliance Florida at Cecil Commerce Center.
The city also is reviewing a permit application for an associated $1.8 million project for Kroll Construction LLC to add a new 30,000-square-foot mezzanine in the northwest corner of the building.
Known as JAX3, the center opened Oct. 1, 2017, to handle larger consumer items.
During a July 2018 tour, the center’s general manager said it had the capacity to hold millions of items — estimated at 3 million — depending on size and seasonality.
That’s a lot of Instant Pots, microwaves, child car seats, ladders, power washers, bed rails, printers, home air filters, high chairs, boxes of Rubbermaid containers, lawn chairs, dog food, kitty litter, garden tools, sports equipment, diapers and other larger items that a customer might order through the e-commerce giant.
Goods move in and out quickly, stacked in racks, retrieved, processed, labeled and sent by conveyors to the outgoing trucks and then shipped by various routes to customers based on their delivery needs.
Within a few hours after a customer clicks “buy,” the items are picked, packed and shipped to meet the promised delivery date.
The AllianceFlorida warehouse is owned by an LLC in care of Link Logistics LLC of New York City.
Amazon has 12 Jacksonville centers.
The Seattle-based online retailer opened its first two fulfillment centers in September 2017 in Northwest Jacksonville followed by the October 2017 opening in AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center, with the help of $26.7 million in city and state incentives for creating 2,700 jobs.
Fulfillment centers reach 1 million square feet in size.
Since then, it opened another fulfillment center, two sortation centers, a heavy bulk freight center and several delivery stations.
None of those subsequent facilities received incentives.