Amazon planning Merrillville distribution center
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Amazon has plans to open its second distribution center in Merrillville. Our partners at The Times of Northwest Indiana report the online retail giant is leasing a 1 million-square-foot facility on a nearly 80-acre site at The Silos and Sanders Farm near Interstate 65.
The building was developed by Dallas-based Crow Holdings, which said Amazon plans to use it as an inbound cross-dock, or IXD, facility. It will receive products from independent sellers that will then be shipped to Amazon fulfillment centers, according to the publication.
Merrillville Town Councilor Shawn Pettit said the developer has invested at least $90 million in the facility, and hundreds of jobs are expected to be created.
“Amazon is the world’s largest company, hands down,” Pettit told The Times. “To have two Amazon facilities in our community is amazing. The economic impact of this is going to be huge.”
The 40-foot tall building features 79 loading docks, 527 car parking spaces and 765 trailer parking spaces, in addition to a more than 18-acre industrial outdoor storage yard.
The new facility is in addition to Amazon’s $30 million, 190,000-square-foot delivery station that opened three years ago at the AmeriPlex at the Crossroads business park.