The town’s building office this past week took receipt of a $270,000 check that will pave the way for a building permit to be issued in the coming days for a planned 202,044-square-foot “last-mile” facility set to be built on 61 acres of a former dog-racing track at 137 Lathrop Road. Original site plans filed by the Exeter Group show the planned structure surrounded on three sides by a total of 664 employee parking spaces with two entrances leading from Lathrop Road to the site. Several loading docks and staging areas rim one end of the building with a pair of retention ponds illustrated on the rear side. Once open, the warehouse will sort received packages dropped off from 18-wheelers before sending them out to customers via a fleet of third-party contractors trained by Amazon. Between 300-400 drivers are expected to work at the Plainfield site and arrive in waves of 160 vehicles during the morning hours and depart in vans. During a typical 10-hour shift, the drivers will deliver within a 45-minute delivery area.
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