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Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:06 pm to REB BEER
quote:Dude will turn this into another vote purchase.
JBE will beat her to it.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:06 pm to TigersSEC2010
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but I just want to know how they plan on turning that thing into a distribution center.
It's a mall, so the storefronts and whatnot are not designed to be load bearing so they can build to suit. If you ever find yourself in an old mall like that, look around and you'll likely see cleverly disguised pillars everywhere, which really support the building. You just knock all that extra shite down and leave the pillars, and the entire mall is likely to be one large open space with maybe the anchor stores at the ends separated by load bearing walls.
If you look at the Cortana from overhead, you can kind of imagine how they can take the northeast and northwest sides of the building opposite the main entrance and just turn that wall into nothing but loading bays, using the parking lots on that side for trailer and truck parking. The main entrance remains the main entrance to the building and the parking lot on that side is employee parking.
It's a decent idea if they can retrofit that building cheaper than building a new one.
PROTIP: 1,000,000 square foot buildings are NOT cheap to build, but we shall see what they do.
This post was edited on 8/27/19 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:07 pm to White Bear
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Dude will turn this into another vote purchase.
The timing is certainly no accident.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:07 pm to Cosmo
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Good luck finding employees.
Starting pay at their distribution centers is like $14/hr. There will be people lining up to get hired. However I'm sure in a few years robots will be doing most of the pulling.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:09 pm to MLCLyons
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Starting pay at their distribution centers is like $14/hr. There will be people lining up to get hired. However I'm sure in a few years robots will be doing most of the pulling.
Other than their surge during the holidays when they first came to BR and were hiring random people off the street they've been fine in my experience.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:11 pm to TigerstuckinMS
quote:The article yesterday about Cortana kicking out their last two tenants said the property owners tried to sell it last year for $4,000,000 and couldn't find a buyer.
It's a decent idea if they can retrofit that building cheaper than building a new one.
I would think that much real estate with all of that parking for an Amazon distribution center would be a solid deal for $4,000,000 even if they have to do a couple of million dollars worth of renovations.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:21 pm to jbgleason
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Ten to one our Mayor and her cronies frick this up though. Remember BucEes?
What? The 2016 flood did them in. They said screw this flood zone.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:27 pm to jbgleason
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Ten to one our Mayor and her cronies frick this up though. Remember BucEes?
So you think the flood was the Mayor's fault?
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:35 pm to TigersSEC2010
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Knowing the way Amazon spends money, they may just bulldoze the damn thing and start over. They may view the large property as a better asset than the shitty old building. I'm sure all their systems are designed for their custom-built centers.
They are going to likely knock down everything over there and start over.
It's a huge space at a great intersection. And they probably are going to get it for 3-4 million plus demolition costs.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:36 pm to TDsngumbo
I'd be surprised to see that the mall owner is kicking everyone out without a confirmed sale, unless they are losing more money having tenants than they would be if it was empty.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:37 pm to chryso
You give too much credit to the mayor. Buccees bailed bc of the risk associated with building here. Not anything the mayor did/didn't do. You all just try too hard at times to bring up St George and the mayor.
This post was edited on 8/27/19 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:47 pm to TDsngumbo
A good first move would be to firebomb the surrounding area before starting construction.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:49 pm to TDsngumbo
That's great for that area, really happy for them.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:50 pm to Cosmo
quote:It will be all robots.
Good luck finding employees.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:51 pm to OweO
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I remember they were supposed to open here, but what happened with that?
The same thing whenever anything nice is slated to come to Louisiana, our fricking dumb and corrupt politicians fricked it up.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:52 pm to Ash Williams
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These ARE the droids they’re looking for
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:56 pm to TDsngumbo
For everyone bitching about how the mayor will frick this up and how bad the surrounding area is etc etc.
This is certainly positive news for B R and something that will create new jobs.
Also a good way to repurpose a property that most had no idea what to do with.
This is certainly positive news for B R and something that will create new jobs.
Also a good way to repurpose a property that most had no idea what to do with.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 5:59 pm to White Bear
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Dude will turn this into another vote purchase.
LOL, the governor helps to bring an Amazon distribution center here and you complain that it might get him votes? What the hell would you prefer he do?
This reminds me of the guy who called Hanagriff to complain about Miles and said "the worst thing that could happen is Miles would win another championship because then we will be stuck with him longer."
Posted on 8/27/19 at 6:16 pm to TDsngumbo
I really don't think the infrastructure around the mall could handle the influx of traffic. That's a lot of 18 wheelers in and out at all times of the day. Traffic on airline between cortana and the airport or I12 is already bad enough.
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