Amazon opens delivery station in DeWitt; what it means for Central New York customers

Amazon DeWitt

Amazon says a last-mile delivery station it has opened on Kirkville Road in DeWitt will speed deliveries to its customers in Central New York.Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com

DeWitt, N.Y. — Amazon has opened a last-mile delivery center in DeWitt, a move that will allow the e-commerce giant to ship products to its Central New York customers more quickly.

Amazon said the 112,000-square-foot delivery station at 6834 Kirkville Road will create more than 100 full- and part-time associate jobs, all paying at least $15 per hour, in addition to hundreds of independent contractors in the company’s Delivery Service Partners and Amazon Flex driver programs.

To celebrate the launch, the company made a $1,500 donation to the DeWitt Rotary Club’s Spring Basket Fundraiser, which supports local families and youth programs within the East Syracuse area.

Amazon also opened a 56,222-square-foot delivery station in Carle Place on Long Island.

Amazon operates more than 150 delivery stations around the country and is building more to advance its goal of delivering products to Amazon Prime members within one day and, for some popular products, on the same day they are ordered.

“We want to get as close to the customer as possible to ensure we can offer fast, efficient shipping speeds,” said Jenna Hilzenrath, a spokesperson for Amazon.

The stations in DeWitt and Carle Place are designed to accommodate Amazon’s planned fleet of electric delivery vehicles.

“Ranging from the physical layout to the electrical design, we are optimizing these spaces to offer flexibility and scale as we move closer toward putting 10,000 electric delivery vehicles on the road in 2022,” the company said.

Work started on the 42-acre site in DeWitt near Interstate 481 in July.

The company is scheduled to open a $350 million, 3.8-million-square-foot distribution center on Morgan Road in Clay this fall. That facility will employ 1,000 people.

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