The e-commerce retiler’s plans include expanding the parking lot with space for more than 100 delivery vans and 125 parking stalls for workers.
of an Amazon application for water quality certification with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.Bill Popp, president of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp., said the expansion of Amazon’s footprint in Alaska highlights the “dramatic rise” in online shopping in Alaska during the pandemic, accelerating a trend that was already underway.
“Combined with increased access to broadband services, this new distribution facility is a clear indication of just how much local consumers have increased their purchases through online services,” he said.Amazon’s applications did not say how many jobs the center will create. Construction is scheduled to begin in the spring.
Amazon schedules about one flight daily into the Fairbanks International Airport, and about one or two flights daily into the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, with products from outside the state, officials at the airports said.Starlink begins providing high-speed satellite internet in Alaska“This is going to put a little more economic value from the Amazon supply chain into Anchorage,” he said.
Jobs at the Amazon facility would increase the roughly 4,500 warehouse jobs in Anchorage, which pay an average of more than $66,000 annually, he said. Those jobs are part of a “hot” business sector — trade, transportation and utilities, he said. It’s the only Anchorage sector beating its 2019 job numbers, before the pandemic.
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