Watch world's largest Amazon project rising in NY State - 3.8 M SF
Steel is going up at a giant Amazon distribution center in Clay, NY, that will employ 1,000 people when it opens in 2021.
A portion of the five-story, 3.8-million-square-foot building’s foundation has been built and cranes are putting steel beams in place. When completed, it will be one of the largest warehouses, in terms of floor space, in the world.
Construction began in early March at the former site of the Liverpool Public Golf and Country Club at the northwest corner of Morgan Road the Liverpool Bypass. Little remains of the 111-acre golf course, which operated for 73 years.
Developer Trammell Crow Co. has a tight deadline to meet. The $350 million distribution center is scheduled to open in the fall of 2021, in time for the Christmas shopping season.
Though the facility will employ 1,000 people, it will be one of Amazon’s most automated distribution centers. Amazon says it will utilize the latest in robotic technology and serve the entire Upstate New York area and bordering states.
