Internet retailer Amazon.com is adding a platform and conveyor at its West Jacksonville fulfillment center now that the city issued a permit Jan. 14 for the almost $13.78 million project.
Designed Conveyor Systems LLC of Franklin, Tennessee, is permitted 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 AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center.
The city also is reviewing a permit application for an associated $1.8 million project for Kroll Konstruction LLC to add a 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 an estimated 3 million items, depending on size and seasonality.
Goods move in and out quickly, stacked in racks, retrieved, processed, labeled and sent by conveyors to the outgoing trucks and then shipped by 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, Amazon opened another fulfillment center, two sortation centers, a heavy bulk freight center and several delivery stations, including one that includes grocery orders.
None of those subsequent facilities received incentives.