Amazon building $87M data center in Portage
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Amazon is building an $87 million data center in Portage after a two-and-a-half year effort by local leaders to bring the online retail giant to the area, our partners at the Times of Northwest Indiana reported.
The facility will be in the AmeriPlex at the Port business park north of Interstate 94 and south of the Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan.
The center will hire at least 10 people who make at least $100,000 per year. A timeline for the facility’s opening was not provided.
“It’s not as many jobs as an Amazon warehouse, but they’re high-paying jobs,” Portage Mayor Sue Lynch told the Times. “These are the technology jobs we’ve been working to bring more of to Portage.”
Amazon was offered tax breaks for its $35 million building and $52 million worth of IT equipment; over the next 10 years, the company will pay $7.5 million in property taxes.
The company is no stranger to northwest Indiana; a 190,000-square-foot Amazon delivery center is located at the AmeriPlex at the Crossroads business park in Merrillville.