Residents in northeast Mississippi will soon have access to quicker package deliveries with Amazon set to open a major delivery center in Saltillo.
The Lee County-based Community Development Foundation announced on Monday that the e-commerce giant will operate out of a 96,000-square-foot building at Turner Industrial Park. Amazon will use the center as a last-mile facility, or a location that facilitates a product traveling from where it was ordered to the final destination.
Packages are transported to delivery stations from Amazon fulfillment and sortation centers and then employees process customer packages for last-mile delivery. Workers at the Saltillo location are expected to make between $17 and $28 per hour.
Launch plans for the Saltillo site are in the early stages, with renovations to the existing building scheduled to start in the coming weeks, per officials. Once the center opens, it will be the lone Amazon facility operating in the region.
“We are excited to welcome Amazon to Lee County,” Lee County Board of Supervisors President Wesley Webb said. “Amazon’s presence in our community will help attract other major brands to locate here. This will also increase their service capacity to the region. We want to especially thank our partners at Tennessee Valley Authority and Appalachian Regional Commission for helping us and assisting with product development for our recruitment of companies.”
Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 6,000 jobs in Mississippi and invested more than $3.5 billion across the state. These investments have contributed an additional $3.2 billion to the Mississippi economy and have helped create more than 11,700 indirect jobs on top of Amazon’s direct hires.
In addition, more than 1,500 independent sellers, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses, in Mississippi are selling to customers in Amazon’s store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the state.
The latest development comes just under seven months after Governor Tate Reeves announced that Amazon Web Services would be bringing two hyperscale data centers to Madison County with a more than $10 billion investment — the largest in state history.
