Online retail giant Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is adding a new fulfillment center and a delivery station in Forney, the company announced Thursday.
The fulfillment center will be at least 1 million square feet and will bring with it 500 jobs. It is expected to open in 2021 at 1475 Akron Way, just south of a new Goodyear Logistics Center. Though unconfirmed at the time, plans for the project first appeared in May through the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Called Project Forney, the development was described as a 1.08 million-square-foot "E-commerce fulfillment facility" located near the corner of Gateway Boulevard and Akron Way. The owner was listed as Atlanta-based industrial developer Seefried Industrial Properties, which has previously built at least three Amazon fulfillment centers and the 1 million-square-foot Georgia Pacific warehouse completed in southern Dallas last year.
“We’re excited to be expanding our network of operations in Forney,” said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon’s vice president of Global Customer Fulfillment, in a prepared statement. “We are grateful for the strong support we’ve received from local and state leaders as we broaden our footprint around the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex."
This will be the company's first fulfillment center in Forney and one of Amazon's largest facilities in North Texas, according to a recent Dallas Business Journal report.
Along with a new fulfillment center, Amazon will also be opening a 200,000-square-foot delivery station in Forney later this year. Located at 1101 S. Gateway Blvd., delivery stations are used to power the last mile of Amazon’s order fulfillment process, according to the company. Packages are transported to delivery stations from fulfillment centers, and then loaded into vehicles for delivery to customers. The delivery station is expected to create more than 100 jobs.