Amazon is leasing a 321,000- square-foot warehouse in Chesterfield County for a new facility where packages are sorted before being shipped out to local homes on delivery vans.
The online retail giant is using the building at Devon USA’s James River Logistics Center on Bellwood Road near Interstate 95 for last mile delivery for packages being shipped directly to homes, the Chesterfield Economic Development Authority said in a news release.
The Amazon facility was built next to two other existing warehouses, each covering about 406,000 square feet, that are being used by DuPont, said Ed Mitchell, Devon’s managing director.
The new Amazon facility at the Bellwood Road site started operating in May, according to the EDA.
“That’s a very good location for them [Amazon], which enables them to distribute to a very large area from that one facility,” Mitchell said.
Amazon opened two 1 million-square-foot fulfillment centers in the Meadowville Technology Park in Chesterfield and in Dinwiddie Commerce Park in Dinwiddie County in 2013.
The Seattle-based company has since opened other operations in Virginia and elsewhere in the Richmond region, including fulfillment and sorting centers and delivery stations in Hanover and Henrico counties and South Richmond. It announced plans in February to open a new fulfillment center in Prince George County.
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