Site plan for Amazon's new massive Cortana Facility approved

No mystery as to why they needed the Dillard's building.

It's going to be about twice the footprint of the mall it replaces and more than twice as tall.

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Seefried wants to demolish Cortana and replace it with a five-level warehouse and office, which would have 2.9 million square feet of space. Documents filed with the Planning Commission call for 1,251 parking spots at the site, an indication of how many employees might work at the facility.

The Atlanta-based company works closely with Amazon. In April it handled the purchase of a 34.3-acre site on Bethany Church’s Industriplex campus. That property is now home for Amazon’s South Baton Rouge Distribution Center, a 111,918-square-foot facility. In November, the company bought a 63.3-acre site off La. 415 in Port Allen and filed documents with the West Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court’s office outlining a lease agreement with Amazon.

Amazon is currently building a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center near Carencro, at the former Evangeline Downs site. That fulfillment center is designed to pick, pack and ship bulky items, such as rugs, patio furniture and outdoor equipment.

Based on the size of the proposed Cortana facility, Marc Wulfraat, a logistics expert who tracks Amazon, said it will handle small, sortable products, less than 18 inches in size. Amazon typically pairs fulfillment centers that carry sortable products with those that handle larger items, he said.

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Even larger than the giant historic post office building in Chicago.

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it also has a 5 story office building attached to it. There's also about 1400 parking spaces with room to expand, so that's probably an indicator of how many employees they'll need per shift when they fully scale up.