FedEx Ground is not standing idle in Amazon’s home town. The company has leased at 152,155 square-foot facility on 15 acres in Auburn, Washington, just south of Seattle. The building will be used as a primary distribution and sorting facility. It is also just six miles from an Amazon fulfillment center, and close to the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, the Union Pacific and BNSF intermodals and major freeways including Interstate 5.
The building features 40 exterior docks, 17 drive-in doors and hundreds of trailer positions said The American Journal of Transportation. The location will allow FedEx Ground to reach 10.7 million consumers in one day and 44 million people for two-day deliveries.
Logistics real estate developer CenterPoint Properties acquired the building for FedEx. E-commerce accounted for 9 percent growth in package volume for FedEx Ground in the 2015 quarter ending Nov. 30. FedEx Ground’s revenue rose 32 percent year-over-year to $4.05 billion in 2015.