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Amazon expands business in the Sunshine State
This past Thursday, online retailer Amazon announced its plan to open a distribution hub Deltona, Florida, which is located between Orlando and Daytona Beach along Interstate 4. This will be the second Amazon facility along the I-4 corridor.
The center will produce about 500 new jobs over a three-year period, and those who are hired will earn $15 an hour or more, Amazon said in a statement. Full-time employees will also get benefits including medical and dental insurance.
“It is going to sprout up so many ancillary businesses,” Deltona Mayor Heidi Herzberg said to local news. “I think the residents of Deltona are hopefully finally going to get those other businesses, restaurants, apartments that they’ve been clamoring for years.”
The land is already being cleared and construction for the new distribution center is expected to begin early next year.
Additionally, Amazon plans to build a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Auburndale that will create more than 500 full-time packing and shipping jobs.
Amazon currently employs 13,500 workers in Florida at its already existing centers in Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville, and has invested more than $5 billion in the state since 2013 through local fulfillment centers, cloud infrastructure, research facilities, etc.
By: Maytinee Kramer
