Amazon plans delivery hub

Three-building delivery center in Milpitas could produce hundreds of jobs

MILPITAS >> In a major industrial lease, Amazon has rented a trio of large buildings that the tech behemoth intends to use as a delivery center on North McCarthy Boulevard in Milpitas.

Together, the three buildings total roughly 343,000 square feet, according to a site plan in a brochure prepared by commercial real estate firm CBRE.

CBRE executive vice president Chip Sutherland and senior vice president Vincent Machado are scouting for tenants to fill the McCarthy Creekside buildings. Sutherland and Machado declined to comment about the Amazon

leasing deal.

The approximate sizes of the buildings, respectively, are 131,000 square feet, 122,000 square feet and 100,000 square feet, the marketing brochure said.

The buildings where Amazon plans to establish its truck delivery center are at 707, 807, and 907 N. McCarthy Blvd., city documents showed.

A Milpitas document sketched out what the Amazon industrial

hub would be — and what it won’t be.

“This would not be a fulfillment warehouse location where goods are stored,” Hexagon Transportation Consultants said in a report it prepared for city planners.

Instead, the focus would be on deliveries, and the industrial hub would serve as a final jumping-off point for Amazon customers, the city report stated.

“The delivery station would receive alreadypackaged goods in large tractor-trailer trucks, sort them for delivery by location, and then dispatch vans for final delivery,” according to the city report.

Potentially, hundreds of people could work at the delivery hub.

“The average number of employees on the project site would range from a low of approximately 75 in the late evening/very early morning hours to a high of approximately 200 between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.,” the consultant’s report to Milpitas officials stated.

A variety of vehicles would operate at the site and at an array of times, city documents show. Delivery vans, personal vehicles and big trucks operating at the Amazon hub would rumble along North McCarthy Boulevard.

“Approximately 360 delivery vans would depart and return to the project site on a daily basis,” the city report estimated. “In addition, approximately 55 traditional passenger vehicles would enter the project site between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. to deliver orders using personal vehicles. A total of 15 to 20 haul trucks would deliver products to the project site between 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. daily, with occasional daytime activities.”