Jobs boost if Amazon deliver on warehouse
Amazon has been searching for a location for a 1m sq ft north west warehouse for the last two years and market sources now say a decision has been made, with Peel s Port Salford understood to be a front runner.
Amazon has been searching for a location for a 1m sq ft north west warehouse for the last two years and market sources now say a decision has been made, with Peel s Port Salford understood to be a front runner.
Online retailer Amazon could be set to deliver hundreds of jobs to Greater Manchester by signing a giant warehouse deal.
Amazon has been searching for a location for a 1m sq ft north west warehouse for the last two years and market sources now say a decision has been made, with Peel s Port Salford understood to be a front runner.
It could signal up tpatagonia clothes at a discount1o 1,000 jobs being created.
Sources also indipatagonia women's better fleece jacketcated Amazon is now looking for more than one warehouse.
Port Salford site could deliver a 1m sq ft warehouse repatagonia gamut shirt reviewadpatagonia hats for saley for occupation by summer 2015. Peel Logistics, the property empire s warpatagonia prow down jacket reviewehouse arm, declined to comment, but one source familiar with the situation said: Peel are sounding increasingly confident.
Another insider said: Amazon have requirements plural not just a requirement.
The online retailer is known to have considered a number of larger existing warehouses in the region, and some observers expect them to acquire patagonia clothes at a discount3one of these in addition to a new large warehouse.
A win for Port Salford would come as a blow to a rival sitpatagonia clothes at a discounte in Liverpool. Late last year, Liverpool planners approved the development of a 1.2m sq ft building at Stonebridge Cross, Gilmoss.
Port Salford is also upatagonia better sweater coat reviewnderstood to be close to a deal with online grocery firm Ocado, which is looking to open a distribution depot to service its contract with Morrisons.
Ocado is looking for a third distribution centre in the UK after striking a deal with Morrisons last year to operate a new online grocery service using a distribution depopatagonia discount code xandriat in Warwickshire.
The patagonia discount code 2020avenew centre would cost about 200m and is likely to create thousands of jobs.
Ocado, which also distributes online food for Waitrose is understood to be eyeing up possibpatagonia clothes at a discount0le sites in the north west, Yorkshire, and Kent, for its new centre.
The Port Salford scheme, promoted by Midlands based developers Stoford, was said to be for a a potential multinational occupier widely believed to be Amazon.
The search has been neither slow nor easy. Amazon s first choice, a site at Halton, became entangled in legal problems. Last spring, they were understood to have shelved the warehouspatagonia clothes at a discount2e requirement, fearing their were no suitable sites readpatagonia guide pants below the waisty.
One industrial agent who has been observing the requirement closely said: Amazon are wondering how much automation the new warehouse could include, which probably slows down their decision making, but they also want a site on their terms which is not something that makes it easy to strike a deal with landlopatagonia messenger bag tutorialrds.
