
Tax Breaks for E-Commerce Giants Make No Sense
Amazon should be shelling out the big dollars in order to win approval for its distribution centers, not the other way around.
Amazon should be shelling out the big dollars in order to win approval for its distribution centers, not the other way around.
As Jeff Bezos prepares to blast off next week, real estate developers are exploring new frontiers for e-commerce sites in Massachusetts.
The team that acquired the 19-acre Widett Circle property in Boston last year is leaning toward industrial uses for the redevelopment of the site near I-93, including a potential Amazon warehouse and other distribution tenants.
After landing Amazon as anchor tenant for a speculative distribution center project in Northborough, developers are putting the 600,000-square-foot facility on the market.
Worcester residents who would be neighbors of Amazon’s proposed “last-mile” distribution facility continue to raise concerns surrounding traffic and noise.
Worcester’s Greendale Mall won’t wind up as Central Massachusetts’ latest mixed-use destination, after all: Owner Finard Properties is proposing to replace it with a distribution facility, instead.
In Boston, apparently, city officials would rather take the inevitable traffic that will come from Amazon’s push to speed up deliveries while skipping the jobs it would come with.
Amazon has opened a delivery center in a former candy factory famous for making Sweethearts and other classic confections.
A 22-acre cluster of industrial properties and parking lots near South Boston’s Andrew Square MBTA’s is being prepared for redevelopment including a last-mile distribution center for Amazon.
Revere Mayor Brian Arrigo has announced Amazon will be opening a distribution center in the former Necco factory on Revere Beach Parkway in the city.
Amazon’s under-construction 17-story tower in Boston’s Seaport District won’t be the company’s only new expansion in Massachusetts. The company has reportedly inked a deal for space at a 2 million-square-foot commercial property north of the city.