Tamarac is the next South Florida city where Amazon will set up.
Amazon this summer will open a same-day fulfillment center, a facility close to customers to deliver products to them within five hours of ordering.
Amazon will open the site in a 178,240-square-foot warehouse in the city’s Commerce Park, directly north of City Furniture.
An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment on plans at Tamarac or its opening date.
The same-day sites were first announced on a company blog in March 2020 for delivery of up to 3 million articles in Philadelphia; Phoenix; Orlando; and Dallas.
The ever-increasing expansion in South Florida is just beginning.
In April, Broward County commissioners voted to declare an impasse in negotiations with a company chosen to build on 61 acres near U.S. 27 and Sheridan Street near Pembroke Pines and go to Amazon, their second choice. Land is the largest portion of undeveloped land owned by Broward County.
The e-commerce giant had originally told county leaders that it would create 500 new jobs at the new distribution warehouse and “this facility would actually support our entire delivery network throughout North America.”
A county representative not authorized to speak on the matter said Friday that Amazon was still interested in the site and that there have been “some negotiations” but that “it’s still early” in the process.
In March, Amazon revealed plans to open four more delivery stations for faster deliveries in South Florida, two of them in Fort Lauderdale and Miramar that would “push the last mile” of the assembly line to ship packages faster in Broward and Miami-Dade. counties, according to a company spokesman.
It has also announced plans to convert two warehouses in west Pompano Beach into a delivery station to get retail products to customers more quickly. PRR with Pompano pending to find out if this was completed. We may be able to update the story on Monday.
It’s still to come: Plans are still pending in west Sunrise to build a fulfillment center, which would employ 1,000 full-time employees and orders service from cities across the country. A city spokeswoman said Monday that city hearings have not yet been scheduled.
And it will open another delivery station at an existing 269,000-square-foot warehouse in Pembroke Park, which is still under renovation within the industrial park district, according to the city manager.
Elsewhere in Palm Beach County, there is a delivery station in West Palm Beach and a distribution center in Boca Raton. A 1 million-square-foot distribution site is being built in unincorporated Palm Beach County, west of Jupiter, said Kelly Smallridge, executive director of the Palm Beach County Business Development Board.
Although Amazon’s plans to build a distribution site in the Village of Golf, which is south of Boynton Beach, were thwarted by traffic concerns, Smallridge said the current three sites won’t be the end.
“There are some on the drawing board,” he said, though he was not allowed to talk about the plans at the works. “That’s not the end of Amazon. It seems appropriate for Palm Beach County for Amazon activity.”
Amazon declines to say which destinations are next on the list.
“Amazon is a dynamic business, and we are constantly exploring new locations and weighing a variety of factors when deciding where to develop future sites to best serve customers, however, we have a policy of not commenting on our future roadmap,” a spokesperson said. in an email.
