2 New Amazon Warehouses Coming To Levittown

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Two new Amazon distribution centers are planned in the Levittown area, one in Falls Township and the other in Bristol Township.

News of the warehouses, which likely will create hundreds of jobs, come on the heels of news that a similar center is planned in Bensalem and as the online retail giant pushes an aggressive growth plan aimed at speeding up deliveries.

Jeffry Dence, chairman of the Falls Township Board of Supervisors, said Friday that the Amazon warehouse there will be in the former Rite Aid warehouse on Geoffrey Road in the Morrisville section.

He said Amazon has sent the township a letter of intent and received the required permits to begin moving in at the site. The warehouse is expected to be in operation by the end of the year, Dence said.

He also said that Amazon has been renting a parking lot on Lincoln Highway, near the township building, where it parks its delivery vans.

The warehouses are part of an expansion plan by Amazon which it says will speed up deliveries. Last week, Bensalem council members approved plans for the warehouse there and Amazon leased a warehouse in northeast Philadelphia for a similar fulfillment center.

Another is planned in Berks County.

Officials in Bristol Township did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday. But an Amazon spokesman on Friday confirmed plans there. The company has signed a lease on a warehouse on Rt. 13 near the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The warehouse was previously used by Solid Wood Cabinets.

The distribution center in Bensalem is expected to create about 315 jobs, company officials told council members there last week.

Amazon spokesman Andre Woodson said the sites in Levittown and Bensalem are expected to be in operation by the end of 2020. He said the locations will create "hundreds of full-time, full benefit jobs in the area."