"In what could be a major economic boon for the city, a massive Amazon warehouse is slated to open in Milpitas in the next few years, serving as its first same-day deliver facility in the South Bay. Milpitas City Council approved the plans for the new warehouse Tuesday night despite disputes over environmental review and labor negotiations. I think this is a wonderful thing, said Milpitas Mayor Carmen Montano."
"For decades, 1000 Gibraltar Drive was used as a corporate campus with four industrial office buildings. While medical device company Lifescan, Inc. operated on the site for nearly three decades, it left in 2015 and the site has been vacant since 2018. Since 2021, the site has been eyed for a warehouse project, with an application to demolish the existing buildings to make way for a single warehouse of nearly half a million square feet approved that year."
"The project consists of a 487,564 square foot, one-story industrial building with office space on the nearly 29 acre site. The warehouse would be a specialized delivery center meant to allow for delivery of certain Amazon products in a four-to-five hour window using gig-style delivery drivers to ship out goods. There are only two other same-day delivery facilities in the Bay Area in Richmond and Brisbane serving San Francisco and the East Bay"
Milpitas approved plans for a 487,564-square-foot Amazon warehouse on a nearly 29-acre site at 1000 Gibraltar Drive, replacing a vacant corporate campus. The site formerly hosted Lifescan until 2015 and has been vacant since 2018. Amazon bought development rights, refiled plans in September 2024, and received planning commission approval. The one-story facility will serve as a same-day delivery center using gig-style drivers to deliver certain products within a four-to-five-hour window. Only two other Bay Area same-day facilities exist. The project faced disputes over environmental review and labor negotiations but is expected to create jobs and generate sales tax.
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