Retailing giant Amazon.com Inc. is expanding in Maryland again, this time into a 1 million-square-foot warehouse in Baltimore County.
The e-commerce giant has acquired a six-building industrial complex in the Baltimore Commons Business Park in Hanover for $90.5 million.
The growth will add about 500 full-time jobs at the ongoing redevelopment of the former Sparrows Point steel mill plant at Tradepoint Atlantic. The e-commerce juggernaut already operates a 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center there that opened in 2017 with more than 2,000 full-time workers.
Hiring will begin this summer and the warehouse is expected to be up and running by the holiday season, said Rachael Lighty, an Amazon spokeswoman, on Thursday. Amazon’s second headquarters is located in Arlington.
“Since 2010, the company has invested more than $3 billion in the state through its local fulfillment center and cloud infrastructure and compensation to thousands of employees,” Lighty said.
The warehouse was developed on speculation by Tradepoint Atlantic’s economic development team over the past year and a half. The 3,250-acre Tradepoint project is an ongoing conversion of the former steel mill site into a global commerce hub in a joint venture between Redwood Capital Investments and Hilco Global.
