Amazon’s air cargo hub at Lakeland Linder International Airport is set to expand by 60+ acres. This expansion will more than double Amazon’s impact coming in at a multi-hundred million dollar investment.
The exact acreage will amount to an additional 63 and will sit within the NW corner of the airport’s land. Phase 2 will add on an additional 464,000 sqft to the already existent 223,000-sqft building which is used for office space and cargo processing + sorting.
This will situate Lakeland’s Amazon hub as the largest Amazon facility in the southeast with a tentative completion date set in 2022.
By the end of the expansion, Amazon will have:
- More space for aircraft storage (including additional Boeing 767-300s and 737 cargo aircraft)
- Another new fuel farm as well as another access road which can store 24,000 gallons of gasoline and 72,000 gallons of jet fuel
- Additional parking storage, along with storage for trailers, as well as a new “truck court” that can accommodate over 350 bays with over 1,000 parking spaces
- The potential for hundreds of new jobs, varying in salary and responsibility
This second phase of the expansion expects to see an increase in arrivals and departures to 36 total operations per day (that’s 18 arrivals and 18 departures) during its first year alone. By the 5-year completion mark, the airport expects both arrivals and departures to increase to 22 per day, bringing the number to 44 total operations.
A discussion of the proposed expansion is set to take place on May 27 at the RP Funding Center which will consider the impacts of the project as it relates to the economy, environment, and society.
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