Amazon preps 1M-square-foot distribution center in Connecticut
The Norwich facility would store, pick, pack and ship goods to sortations centers and localized delivery centers further downstream the supply chain.
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An article from Amazon preps 1M-square-foot distribution center in Connecticut The Norwich facility would store, pick, pack and ship goods to sortations centers and localized delivery centers further downstream the supply chain. Published Aug.
18, 2026 Phil Neuffer Lead Editor Share Copy link Email / Print License Add us on Google Workers unload items from a truck to be moved into inventory storage at an Amazon facility in Kent, Washington. The company’s planned Norwich site will leverage high-tech sortation equipment to store bulk items.
Kelly Stroh/Supply Chain Dive Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Amazon is in the early stages of planning for a 1 million-square-foot retail distribution facility in Norwich, Connecticut, the company confirmed to Supply Chain Dive.
The Norwich center is expected to serve as a “first mile” facility, according to Elena Rossi, a project manager from Bluewater Property Group, which is working with the e-commerce giant on the project.
First mile facilities receive goods and then distribute them to “middle mile” sortation centers before they are entered into last-mile centers that handle order fulfillment to customers. Amazon plans to equip the facility with high-tech sortation equipment to store bulk items for order fulfillment further down the supply chain.
The facility will pick, pack and ship goods to localized delivery centers “on a 24/7 basis,” Rossi said during a meeting of Norwich’s Inland Wetlands, Watercourses and Conversation Commission earlier this month. The site is one of two facilities in the state currently in early development, with the other a fulfillment facility in Killingly, the company said.
Amazon added it has not set a planned opening date for either facility. Network growth is nothing new for Amazon, including along the East Coast. The company is currently in the early planning stages for a 4 million-square-foot operations facility in Holbrook, New York.
Amazon expects to invest $1 billion into the project, which it said will create 1,000 full-time jobs. The e-commerce titan also previously said it would open a 3 million-square-foot robotics fulfillment center in North Carolina this year, while reworking multiple facilities in Florida to convert them into fulfillment sites.
Elsewhere, Amazon was expected to begin construction on a 1. 2 million-square-foot distribution center in Terrell, Texas, and a roughly 250,000-square-foot sorting warehouse in Georgetown, Texas, this month. Editor’s note: This story was first published in our Operations Weekly newsletter. Sign up here.
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