Amazon plans new facility in Horn Lake
Online retail giant Amazon is planning yet another facility in the Memphis metropolitan area, this time in an 860,000-square-foot building in Horn Lake, officials confirmed.
The new facility is expected to open at 1615 Commerce Parkway. No timeline for when the facility would open was available but several jobs have already been posted, some labeled seasonal.
It's unclear how many employees the company will hire in Horn Lake. Specific pay information was also unavailable but Amazon pays all of its employees at least $15 an hour.
News of the facility was first reported by the Memphis Business Journal.
This facility comes less than one year after the company announced plans for a new warehouse in the Legacy Park industrial center in Olive Branch off Mississippi 302. And that announcement came short after the first northern Mississippi warehouse was announced in Marshall County.
"We are looking so forward to it," Horn Lake Mayor Allen Latimer said of the latest planned facility. "It is going to mean so much to our city."
Even as an expansion is underway in Mississippi, Amazon is still adding to its Memphis footprint. A new robotics facility along the Frayser/raleigh line is underway. At a January groundbreaking attended by Gov. Bill Lee and a host of other local and state dignitaries, Amazon announced plans to hire a workforce of 1,000.
According to Desoto County Community Resource Director Christie Barclay, Amazon does qualify to apply for public incentives to help lower the cost of the project but the company so far has not requested any tax breaks.
Amazon also has a receiving center at 3292 Holmes Road and a sortation center at 5155 Citation Drive in Memphis. Before 2017, the company had no significant presence in the Mid-south.
Amazon officials could not be reached for comment.
Desiree Stennett covers economic development and business at The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at desiree.stennett@commercialappeal.com, 901-529-2738 or on Twitter: @desi_stennett.