Amazon sends letter of intent to locate facility on Fall River-Freetown border
Jo C. Goode
Herald News Staff Reporter
Posted Oct. 30, 2014 @ 5:14 pm
Updated at 6:36 PM
FALL RIVER — It’s been hinted at and rumored since 2012 that the global company Amazon was looking to open a distribution center in the city.
But bringing the Fortune 500 company to the city may be a reality after Amazon sent to Mayor Will Flanagan a letter of intent to build a million-square-foot facility in the South Coast Life Sciences and Technology Park.
The news is welcome for a city that has been plagued by crippling unemployment for years. Amazon, in its letter, dated Oct. 23, to Flanagan indicates the opening of the facility will create 1,000 jobs with an annual pay of $35,000 or more plus benefits.
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Fiola said that, if the deal between Amazon, the city and Freetown is reached, the company plans to begin construction the first quarter of 2015, and facility would be fully operational by the second half of 2016.
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