Another Amazon facility may be headed to Memphis
Amazon may be preparing for a second facility in Memphis; a new building permit application names the online sales company as the tenant for a $10 million renovation of the warehouse at 5155 Citation in Southeast Memphis.
That’s the 400,000-square-foot warehouse that most recently housed AT&T Entertainment Group Supply Chain.
The building was nearly emptied out by Wednesday. Ohio-based Myron Bowling Auctioneers just completed an auction of the facility’s pallet racking and material-handling equipment.
Winning bidders have until the end of July to collect the items they bought, auction official Tom Bowling said.
Calls to Amazon and commercial real estate agents involved were not returned Wednesday. A representative of the Economic Development Growth Engine of Memphis and Shelby County was unaware of any plans by Amazon for the warehouse.
The thick set of building plans filed with the Office of Construction Codes did not name Amazon as the tenant. But documents showed detailed construction drawings for the renovation.
The document showed detailed plans for the main cavernous warehouse space as well as training and conference rooms, bathroom, mainentry vestibule and areas for items like projection screens, battery charges and metal detection equipment.
Just two miles west at 3292 Holmes Road in IDI Gazeley’s Memphis International Logistics Center, construction of a $70 million Amazon “receive center” center seems nearly complete on the outside.
The center will be Amazon’s first facility in Memphis.
The receive center will employ 575 people and was scheduled to be online by early next year. The facility is to receive and repackage goods for shipment to Amazon fulfillment centers.
In October, the EDGE board approved $15 million worth of property tax breaks over 15 years in return for Amazon’s investment and jobs at the receive center.
The company committed to pay the workers a minimum of $12.83 an hour.
Memphis did not make the cut for luring a much larger Amazon project, a second Amazon headquarters dubbed “HQ2.” That development involves 50,000 jobs and a $5 billion impact over 10 to 15 years.