As we start the new year, KLCC checked in with Christian Wihtol, who writes about real estate and commercial development for the Eugene Weekly. His most recent column confirms what has long been suspected: Amazon is planning to build a warehouse near the Eugene airport.
Rachael McDonald: You reported that Amazon purchased land off Highway 99 near the Eugene Airport. What else do you know about this project?
Christian Wihtol: Well, Rachael, I probably know too much. I’ve been writing about this story all year and the big mystery with it was who was behind the project. From the start I suspected it was Amazon, but only when Amazon actually bought the property on Dec.. 26 was the company’s name there in black and white. So, it was nice to see and get that confirmed. The warehouse project, it’s gonna be a total of 320,000 square feet, which is super big, on 85 acres, have a big conveyor belt system inside for receiving large volumes of packages that would be brought there by trailers and then sorting them for what’s called the last mile distribution to local homes and businesses…