Why Should Delaware Care?Amazon is already one of Middletown’s biggest employers. A planned expansion would quadruple its footprint in the region. But plans to use robots in the new facilities have also raised concerns about jobs being replaced.
E-commerce giant Amazon has plans to build two robotic-centric facilities in Middletown that together could quadruple the company’s footprint in fast-growing, southern New Castle County.
The company recently bought two adjacent tracts of farmland along the western edge of Middletown for $207 million, according to New Castle County property records. Local farmer and developer Richard Money previously owned the land…