2 JULY 2, 2020 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Amazon signs lease that will bring
a massive warehouse to Maspeth
BY BILL PARRY
BPARRY@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
Amazon signed a lease for a massive 1-millionsquare
foot warehouse in Maspeth, not
far from where the e-commerce giant had
planned to build its HQ2 campus in Long Island
City.
The facility is currently under construction at
55-15 Grand Ave., which was home to the old Cascades
Containerboard factory. The total square
footage includes a multi-story parking structure
so the actual size of the delivery station is approximately
250,000 square feet.
“We are excited to increase our investment in
the New York City area with a new delivery station
that will provide fast and efficient deliveries and
create hundreds of job opportunities for the talented
local workforce,” an Amazon spokesperson
said.
While the new delivery station won’t bring
25,000 jobs that Amazon vowed to create at the
scuttled HQ2 campus along Anable Basin, the
Maspeth facility will offer entrepreneurs the opportunity
to build their own business delivering
Amazon packages, as well as independent contractors
the flexibility to be their own boss and create
their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex.
“I’m happy to see that Amazon is continuing to
invest in Queens and hopefully bring hundreds
more jobs to the Maspeth area along with it,”
Councilman Robert Holden said. “With so many
people out of work due to the pandemic, now more
than ever we need jobs going forward.”
The Amazon delivery station will bring hundreds
of additional trucks to residential areas that
are already congested from big rigs making their
way from the industrial zone to the Long Island
Expressway.
“I do have some concerns about the increased
truck traffic due to the massive scale of this
facility, but I’ve had discussions with Amazon
representatives in the past and I trust that they
will be responsive to my concerns and willing
to work together for the good of the community,”
Holden said.
This is the second location in Maspeth where
Amazon is developing for its delivery network.
The retail giant signed a lease in February for
300,000 square feet of space at Rentar Plaza, located
at 66-26 Metropolitan Ave.
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