Amazon will invest $150 million in a new 1.2 million-square-foot fulfillment center near Interstate 57 and University Parkway in University Park that is expected to create at least 800 jobs, the village and company confirmed Thursday.
Amazon, through the project’s developer, Venture One Real Estate, will pay $1 million in impact fees to the village to buy Police and Fire department vehicles, although the village would, over a couple of years, pay that money back.
The development is underway at the southwest corner of Central Avenue and Steger Road, just north of the I-57/University Parkway interchange…Please click here to read Mike Nolan’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown. A related story, University Park Lands $150 Million Amazon Facility, is in the Crusader.
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