Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility
Amazon Plans New Distribution Hub at Boarded Up Kmart in Bakersfield
News
By News
Published 3 years ago on
December 22, 2020

Share

[aggregation-styles]

A former Kmart shopping center in Bakersfield is slated to become an Amazon distribution hub and the e-commerce giant’s second warehouse development in Kern County.

City records show a 123,000-square-foot warehouse proposed at the site would receive and sort six truckloads of consumer goods per day. Products would then be loaded onto 20 delivery vans and shipped out for local delivery.

The city’s Board of Zoning Adjustment in September approved a conditional-use permit to convert the existing, 50-year-old building into a distribution warehouse. Nowhere in materials filed with the city is Amazon mentioned, and a city official said the operator’s name had not been disclosed.

But Amazon has been identified as the operator, according to a representative of one of the small businesses ordered by the property’s owner to vacate the site to make room for the new project.

Amazon was similarly stealthy when it was in early stages of developing the much larger “fulfillment center” the Seattle-based company recently opened just north of Meadows Field Airport. In that case, county officials considering the project were unaware the nation’s most valuable retailer was behind it.

Read More →

RELATED TOPICS:

DON'T MISS

Rise of the Anti-“Woke” Democrat

DON'T MISS

High-Level Saudi Visit Follows Multimillion-Dollar Foreign Influence Operation

DON'T MISS

Iran and Russia Move to Fill Diplomatic Vacuum in Afghanistan

DON'T MISS

Pelosi’s Husband Locked In $5.3 Million From Alphabet Options

DON'T MISS

Experts Reportedly See Major Damage in Attack on Iran Centrifuge Plant

DON'T MISS

Opinion: School Choice Marches Ahead

DON'T MISS

Zakaria: Americans Care About History Because the Stakes Are High

DON'T MISS

California Democrats Are Reliably Pro-Labor. But One Union Is Testing Their Patience.

DON'T MISS

The Tightrope Walk Democrats Have Ahead on Two Separate Infrastructure Bills

DON'T MISS

Bill Barr on Trump’s Election Fraud Claims: “It Was All Bullsh*t”

No data was found

Canadian School Boards Sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for Disrupting Students’ Education

3 hours ago

California Law Enforcement Agencies Obstruct Transparency Efforts in Use-of-Force Cases

3 hours ago

Fresno County Tackles Animal Overpopulation with New Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Program

4 hours ago

Fallen Crypto Mogul Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

4 hours ago

When Newsom Gives His State of the State, He Should Be Candid About California’s Economy

4 hours ago

No Police Charges for Taylor Swift’s Dad Over Paparazzi Incident in Sydney

4 hours ago

Biden Administration to Lend $1.5B to Restart Michigan Nuclear Power Plant, a First in the US

5 hours ago

Tonight’s Biden Fundraiser With Obama and Clinton Already Nets a Record $25 Million

5 hours ago

Supermom Carmi Is Ready to Be Embraced by Her Forever Family

Animals /

9 hours ago

Ukrainian Navy Says a Third of Russian Warships in the Black Sea Have Been Destroyed or Disabled

17 hours ago

Rockin’ Out or Laughing, the Valley Has Its Pick of Weekend Events

There’ll be plenty of events to choose from this weekend. If you’re in the mood to go to a rock concert or a stand-up comedy sho...

13 mins ago

13 mins ago

Rockin’ Out or Laughing, the Valley Has Its Pick of Weekend Events

3 hours ago

Ex-Correctional Officer at Women’s Prison in California Sentenced for Sexually Abusing Inmates

3 hours ago

Caitlin Clark and Iowa Draw Nearly 5 Million Viewers for Second-Round NCAA Win

3 hours ago

Canadian School Boards Sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for Disrupting Students’ Education

3 hours ago

California Law Enforcement Agencies Obstruct Transparency Efforts in Use-of-Force Cases

4 hours ago

Fresno County Tackles Animal Overpopulation with New Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Program

4 hours ago

Fallen Crypto Mogul Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

4 hours ago

When Newsom Gives His State of the State, He Should Be Candid About California’s Economy

MENU

CONNECT WITH US

Search

Send this to a friend