Amazon to open new facility in Metro East, helping owner fill vacant warehouse

Amazon to open new facility in Metro East, helping owner fill vacant warehouse
December 16, 2021 Jared Haynes
A Metro East warehouse that will house Amazon operations

This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on December 10, 2021.

Amazon will open a new facility in the Metro East, one of two tenants that signed leases to fill 500,000 square feet in a warehouse within 45 days, in the latest sign of St. Louis’ red-hot industrial market.

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant confirmed to the Business Journal that it will open a Sauget facility in 2022 focused on same-day delivery. Houston-based SparrowHawk LLC is leasing Amazon 202,300 square feet of distribution space at its 255 Logistics Center, 1659 Sauget Business Blvd. near Interstate 255.

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