Amazon Expands in Hampton Roads, Metro Baltimore

Amazon fulfillment center. Image courtesy of Amazon

Amazon has opened two delivery stations in central Maryland, including their first in Baltimore, and two more in Virginia’s Hampton Roads area, as well as a career center for hiring and orientation, also in Hampton Roads. The company now has 15 delivery stations in each state.

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The 72,000-square-foot Baltimore delivery station is at 2100 Van Deman St., along Colgate Creek in the Saint Helena neighborhood and within half a mile of an Amazon fulfillment center.

The delivery station in Hanover, Md., is at 7226 Preston Gateway Drive and totals 194,000 square feet.

In Hampton Roads, the Amazon Career Center, at 1989 S. Military Highway in Chesapeake, Va., will serve as a hiring and orientation hub for the company’s operations facilities in Chesapeake, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hampton and Virginia Beach.

The two delivery stations in the Hampton Roads area are a 165,000-square-foot facility at 1400 Sewells Point Road in Norfolk, Va., and a 111,600-square-foot facility at 223 W. Mercury Blvd. in Hampton, Va.

An Amazon spokesperson told Commercial Property Executive that the Hanover facility is new construction and the others were existing properties. In all, the four new delivery stations total more than 500,000 square feet.

Amazon explains that its delivery stations handle the last mile of its order process and help speed up deliveries for customers. Packages are shipped to a delivery station from neighboring Amazon Fulfillment and Sortation Centers, loaded into delivery vehicles and delivered to customers.

Big—and bigger

Amazon is, of course, well known in recent years for a massive development program of super-sized distribution facilities.

A March survey of the nation’s 10 largest industrial projects under construction, based on CommercialEdge data, found that nine were affiliated with Amazon. (The sole exception was Tesla’s 4 million-square-foot Giga Texas vehicle-assembly facility in Austin).

Among the nine was a $200 million, 3.8 million-square-foot multi-story processing facility in Suffolk, Va.—in the Hampton Roads region. The robotics-assisted fulfillment center will be the state’s largest industrial building.