Amazon Decision Highlights St. Louis Region’s Growing Strength as a Logistics Hub

Amazon Decision Highlights St. Louis Region’s Growing Strength as a Logistics Hub
June 5, 2016 Matthew Hibbard

This story was originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June 5, 2016.


By Jacob Barker | St. Louis Post-Dispatch


The massive warehouse east of Interstate 255 doesn’t look much different from the dozen or so that line Gateway Center Commerce Drive.

But instead of big rigs lined up along the loading docks, clusters of construction equipment and workers were scattered around the building, hurrying to retrofit the warehouse in time for its new tenant: online retail behemoth Amazon.

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