FedEx is preparing to close a major logistics hub in Coppell, cutting hundreds of jobs in what stands out as Texas’s largest announced layoff so far for 2025. The decision will erase a critical node in the company’s supply chain network and leave hundreds of families in the Dallas–Fort Worth suburbs scrambling to replace stable warehouse and logistics work.
The shutdown underscores how fragile regional employment can be when a single facility depends heavily on a few big customers and on shifting corporate strategies. It also highlights how the broader logistics sector is recalibrating after years of e‑commerce expansion, with ripple effects that will be felt well beyond one industrial park in North Texas.
The Coppell hub’s abrupt shutdown and what is closing
The Coppell facility at the center of the cuts is not a small satellite warehouse but a full logistics hub that has helped move goods through the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex for years. Company notices describe a complete wind down of operations at the site, with all 856 employees at the logistics facility on Sandy Lake Road in Coppell set to lose their jobs. Internal planning documents and local briefings frame this as a permanent closure rather than a temporary pause or seasonal adjustment.
Regulatory filings indicate that the Coppell distribution hub is expected to be permanently closed by late April, with a Worker Adjustment and Ret notice laying out the timeline for the shutdown. The company has told officials that operations at the Sandy Lake Road site will cease and that the facility will no longer function as a regional hub once the wind down is complete. For a metro area that has marketed itself as a logistics powerhouse, the loss of a large, fully staffed hub in The Coppell industrial corridor is a significant setback.
How a lost client and sector pressures triggered 856 job cuts
Behind the closure is a straightforward but brutal business reality: the work that once justified a full-scale hub in Coppell has dried up. Reporting on the decision describes the site as a Texas Hub Gutted after a major customer pulled its business, leaving 856 jobs exposed almost overnight. When a single client accounts for a large share of volume, the loss of that contract can make an entire facility uneconomical, and that is exactly what has happened in Coppell, Texas…