Amazon is planning another “last-mile” delivery station in northeast OKC, just a few miles from the one it closed nearly two years ago to deal with a slowdown in sales and a bloated supply of warehouse space.
The slowdown is over. Amazon is building again to boost e-commerce sales by pushing same-day delivery, according to commercial real estate data firm CoStar Group .
The 178,991-square-foot building, in the early planning stages, will be at 1803 E Britton Road, on the west side of N Eastern Avenue, Oklahoma City planning records show. It will be nearly three times as large as the 60,000-square-foot center that Amazon closed at 4401 E Hefner Road a mile north and two miles east.
Amazon acknowledged the plan but declined to provide any details.
Another Amazon delivery station could mean up to 200 jobs
Depending on the size and location, delivery stations reportedly can employ up to around 200 employees at around $18 an hour, according to Bloomberg.
Amazon’s employment numbers in Oklahoma have expanded exponentially in recent years. The Oklahoma Department of Commerce estimated Amazon employed between 2,000 and 2,500 people in the state in 2019. In 2023, that figure ballooned to between 14,000 and 15,000.