Amazon Delivery Center To Open In Southern Manatee County

MANATEE COUNTY, FL — Amazon plans to open a more than 200,000-square-foot delivery center in southern Manatee County.

The facility at 2200 Tallevast Road in Sarasota will open later this year in time for the holiday shopping season, Owen Torres, an Amazon spokesperson, told Patch.

“We are excited to increase our investment in Manatee County with a new delivery station to provide fast and efficient delivery for customers and provide hundreds of job opportunities for the talented local workforce,” he said. “The delivery station will power Amazon’s last-mile capabilities to enhance our customer experience in the metro area.”

Amazon fulfillment and sortation centers send packages to these "last-mile" facilities, which are their final destination before being delivered to customers.

The new delivery station in Manatee County will support Amazon’s growing volume of customer orders in the area, Torres said.

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The new facility will create hundreds of full-time and part-time jobs starting at $15 an hour in Manatee County, he added.

“Delivery stations also offer entrepreneurs the opportunity to build their own business delivering Amazon packages, as well as independent contractors the flexibility to be their own boss, create their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex,” Torres said.