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New Amazon building at Cortana
Posted on 11/1/21 at 6:00 pm
Posted on 11/1/21 at 6:00 pm
I drove around the building today and the steel frame is up. While it’s a huge building I’m surprised how little of the site it consumes. Is the rest all parking or some combination with other buildings as well. Maybe leaving room for future expansion??
Anyone dialed in to this project?
Anyone dialed in to this project?
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Posted on 11/1/21 at 6:07 pm to foj1981
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This post was edited on 2/14/22 at 5:38 am
Posted on 11/1/21 at 6:08 pm to foj1981
Drove by Cortana recently too and I also saw that they demolished the tire shop next to Dillards, not the FireStone shop.
Did Amazon just go ahead and buy that too? I believe that it wasn't in the original deal. Must've got it for cheap.
Did Amazon just go ahead and buy that too? I believe that it wasn't in the original deal. Must've got it for cheap.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 6:08 pm to foj1981
Will it be ready in time?
Posted on 11/1/21 at 6:10 pm to foj1981
Probably a last mile delivery station so a lot of truck and van parking needed
This post was edited on 11/1/21 at 6:11 pm
Posted on 11/1/21 at 6:10 pm to Sentrius
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I believe that it wasn't in the original deal. Must've got it for cheap.
Or just the opposite and they finally made an offer that Firestone couldn’t refuse.
I have no idea, just speculating.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:11 pm to supadave3
It's going to be 5 stories so it will be huge on the inside. Needs lots of room for the trailers to park.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:12 pm to foj1981
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Anyone dialed in to this project?
It will be woefully under air conditioned
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:13 pm to foj1981
What you are seeing is only about 5% of the whole steel frame. It’s a 3.5 million square foot building.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:13 pm to foj1981
Yes, thousands of employees you have to plan parking for plus the trailer yard. The one in Lafayette is massive and that’s just a large product site, whereas this one is the smaller products with the robotics
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:13 pm to Gee Grenouille
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It will be woefully under air conditioned
Good luck working in that building from June to September.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:14 pm to LATiger90
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The one in Lafayette is massive and that’s just a large product site, whereas this one is the smaller products with the robotics
The Carencro one is huge and dwarfs the FedEx building next to it. The Cortana facility will be about 4 times larger than that still.
Truly massive, and certainly bigger than the mall it replaces.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:16 pm to Sentrius
It will be fine during the summer, if they can keep the dome freezing during games they can manage a 5 story warehouse
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:18 pm to foj1981
It’s supposed to be roughly half the square footage that Cortana Mall had I believe.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:20 pm to MikeBRLA
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It’s supposed to be roughly half the square footage that Cortana Mall had I believe.
Close. About 2 million square feet larger.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:23 pm to foj1981
I went to the "Largest retailer warehouse in the world" in the early 2000's as part of an audit, all these new Amazon facilities dwarf this thing, it was Walmarts biggest for a time. Parking was easily 3X the size of the building and they use to only build them 2 stories with the main area open.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:24 pm to foj1981
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Anyone dialed in to this project?
No, but I saw the SD drawings. The structure of almost all decent to large buildings are fabricated and built in phases. They might start on the next sequence before they finish one as long as the structure is laterally capable of standing on its own.
Also, it will look a lot bigger once it's enclosed.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:38 pm to Ed Osteen
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if they can keep the dome freezing during games they can manage a 5 story warehouse
Yeah but the have to keep the dome freezing so they don't lose paying customers for games.
Amazon barely allows their employees to take a piss when it's absolutely necessary, getting cheap on Air conditioning is nothing to them.
Not that I'll ever be in a position to find out.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:40 pm to foj1981
Not as big as the Shreveport facility
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:43 pm to MikeBRLA
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It’s supposed to be roughly half the square footage that Cortana Mall had I believe.
Cortana: 1.5m sq ft
Amazon: 3.5m sq ft
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