A developer working for e-commerce giant Amazon has submitted plans to build a sprawling multistory warehouse straddling the Waterbury-Naugatuck line that proponents say could create as many as 1,000 jobs in the lower Naugatuck Valley. A project almost three years in the making, the six-story, approximately 650,000-square-foot robotic-assisted facility would feature 59 loading docks and parking for more than 1,000 vehicles on 183 acres at the Waterbury/Naugatuck Industrial Park off Waterbury’s South Main Street. The parcel intended for Amazon was about 150 acres until primary developer Blue Water Property Group of Pennsylvania bought an adjoining parcel within the last two years, Hyde added. Amazon, a giant multinational technology corporation with a market capitalization of $1.87 trillion, already owns 10 warehouses in Connecticut. They are mostly located along the Route 15, I-91 and I-95 corridors, in Bristol, Cromwell, Danbury, Meriden, North Haven, Orange, Stratford, Trumbull, Wallingford and Windsor. The Waterbury-Naugatuck warehouse would be about the same size as Windsor’s.
Amazon Proposes Sprawling Warehouse on Waterbury-Naugatuck Line