Amazon’s largest facility in Mass. just opened in North Andover

Amazon’s largest facility in Massachusetts had its official ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, The Boston Globe reports. 

The five-story fulfillment center in North Andover is on the site of a former telephone company factory and is spread out over almost 4 million square feet, according to the newspaper. With 12 miles of conveyor belts and thousands of robots to automate goods processed in the facility, it is Amazon’s first highly automated warehouse in the state.

It is twice the size of Amazon’s Fall River facility, according to The Globe.

The facility, which opened in January, cost about $400 million to build, according to the newspaper. Amazon was granted $27 million in property tax breaks for the warehouse over 10 years by North Andover, which approved the project in 2019. 

The center will employ 1,500 people, Amazon told The Globe.