More than 600 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Homestead, Florida, will be out of a job when the facility shuts down on July 2, according to a WARN Act notice the company filed with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity this spring. The filing, which is listed in the Florida DEO WARN notice database, identifies the site at 27505 SW 132 Ave and describes the closure as temporary, tied to renovations that will keep the building offline for roughly two years.
But the shutdown raises pointed questions about a Miami-Dade County land deal that required Amazon to maintain hundreds of jobs at the site in exchange for publicly owned property. With the warehouse going dark and its entire workforce displaced, neither the company nor county officials have explained how those obligations will be met.
The land deal behind the warehouse
Amazon did not acquire the Homestead parcel on the open market. Miami-Dade County conveyed the land through an economic development agreement intended to bring stable, full-time employment to a community where household incomes trail the broader Miami metro by a wide margin.
In exchange, Amazon agreed to maintain a minimum of 325 full-time positions at the site, a floor written into the Declaration of Restrictions governing the property. The county’s legislative file for Resolution No. R-231547 describes this as an ongoing maintenance requirement, not a one-time hiring target…