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6,000 robots help workers at new Woodburn Amazon distribution center
Amazon’s PDX8 warehouse in Woodburn is 3.8 million square feet and is the largest building in Oregon.
Amazon has purchased the land it plans to use for a distribution center in Eugene.
Amazon.com Services LLC paid $2 million on Dec. 26 for the lot on Highway 99 where the company intends to build a large e-commerce center. The sale was first reported by Eugene Weekly and confirmed by the Register-Guard, which also obtained a copy of the deed.
Amazon plans to develop offices, an employee training center, a warehouse, a distribution facility and fleet storage with 370 parking spaces on the 84-acre lot bordering Highway 99, the airport and Awbrey Lane.
How will Amazon’s plan affect traffic?
According to an application submitted to the Lane Regional Air Protection Agency, the distribution center will add 2,592 trips per day to Highway 99. The city of Eugene’s website states the developers estimate that fewer than 100 of the daily trips will occur between 7 and 8 a.m. and 4 and 5 p.m.
What about the wetlands?
Amazon’s proposal will permanently alter 6.75 acres of wetlands through infill and removal of soil. Developers have proposed to mitigate this by purchasing Amazon Prairie wetland mitigation credits from the city of Eugene. Public comment closed Jan 2. and was being reviewed by the Oregon Department of State Lands, which is scheduled to give a response to the application by March 2.
What types of delivery vehicles will Amazon use?
As a condition of the LRAPA permit, Amazon committed to using 25% electric vehicles in Year 1, 40% in Year 5 and 70% in Year 10.
How big will the Amazon warehouse be?
Several permit applications have indicated the facility will be 318,000 square feet. Compared to one of Eugene’s largest industrial campuses, the defunct Hynix chip factory which covers 1.2 million square feet, the Amazon development is a fraction of the size. And it is dwarfed by Amazon’s Woodburn facility, which opened late last year and is billed as the largest building in Oregon at 3.5 million square feet.
Alan Torres covers local government for the Register-Guard. He can be reached by email at atorres@registerguard.com, on X @alanfryetorres or on Reddit at u/AlfrytRG.