HANOVER TWP. — E-commerce and technology giant Amazon plans to invest $60 million to build a new distribution center in the township that will be the hub for a fleet of 900 delivery vans.
Amazon recently purchased more than 125 acres along the border of Nanticoke for $24.75 million to construct one of its “last-mile” facilities where individual orders are prepared for deliveries, according to plans outlined by township Manager Sam Guesto.
“This is all going to be blue Amazon vans,” Guesto said, pointing to a sprawling parking lot while reviewing a blueprint of the proposed Amazon campus.
Amazon describes its “last mile” facilities, or delivery stations, as the final stop in a package’s journey to a customer and different from fulfillment centers where mass inventory is stored for bulk distribution.
The Hanover Twp. delivery station will serve a 50-mile radius in the region, Guesto said.
Amazon plans to build a 275,000-square-foot warehouse and two smaller 6,500-square-foot buildings that the vans drive through each time they enter and exit the property, Guesto said.
Before Amazon expressed interest in the site, a developer planned to build a 1 million-square-foot warehouse — even bigger than the Chewy and Adidas warehouses in the Hanover Industrial Estates that are about 800,000-square-feet each and could be seen from Interstate 81, Guesto said.
The Amazon campus will be located along Dziak Drive adjacent to a Safelite Auto Glass warehouse on a currently wooded ridge of mine-scarred land behind the Hanover Recreation Park on Front Street, which is the border of Hanover Twp. and the densely residential Hanover section of Nanticoke.
Blueprint of the proposed Amazon delivery station in Hanover Twp. (Bob Kalinowski / Staff Photographer)
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