Amazon establishing major new Milford warehouse
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A former bottling plant at 1 National St. in Milford is being converted into a new Amazon distribution facility.
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More than 500 parking spots will be added on both sides of Beaver Street off Medway Road in Milford to support an existing Amazon distribution center on Industrial Road.
Amazon is building a 320,000-square-foot distribution warehouse at a former bottling facility in Milford, and growing operations at a second such site in town with expanded worker parking.
The online retailer, which has benefited during the coronavirus pandemic from more shoppers buying online, will move into a renovated former home of Ardagh Group, a glass bottling facility closed in 2018. The facility was previously part of the Ball-Foster Glass Container Co., and then Verallia, part of the French manufacturing giant Saint-Gobain.
A lease agreement with Amazon was filed with the Worcester Registry of Deeds in June for 1 National St., behind the Milford Square shopping center on South Main Street.
The Milford Planning Board reviewed the project for more than a year before giving approval in July. Permitting was approved in exchange for improving traffic lights at the intersection of South Main Street and Cape Road, and reconstructing the intersection of South Main Street and Depot Street, outside where the facility sits. Restrictions were also put in place for overnight parking and the active running of refrigerated trucks on the site.
Ardagh, a Luxembourg company, sold the 32-acre Milford site in December 2018 for $4.1 million to three investment firms: New Mill Capital Holdings of New York, Odyssey Real Estate Capital of Las Vegas and Joseph Finn Co. of Boston. Gregory Schain, who manages real estate property acquisitions for New Mill Capital, declined to comment on the property's development.
The owners filed a $14.9-million mortgage for the property with the Worcester Registry of Deeds in June.
Amazon, which is normally tight-lipped about development plans, didn't return a message seeking comment.
Amazon is also building a parking lot of nearly 550 spaces at Medway Road and Beaver Street for another facility it has in town, at 12 Industrial Road. The Milford Planning Board and the Board of Selectmen gave approval in September, with required road improvements including converting a one-way stretch of Beaver Street to two-way, and installing new three-way stop signs at Beaver and Birch streets, and adjusting traffic lights at Medway Road and I-495.
The parking site, which is owned by businessman Mendon businessman Kevin Meehan, totals 19 acres on both sides of Beaver Street, just off I-495 across from the Milford Crossing shopping plaza.
The I-495 corridor has become a more attractive place for distribution centers, with a 345,000-square-foot distribution facility in Bellingham that began construction last fall without any tenants lined up, and the Potpourri Group opened a 450,000-square-foot facility in Littleton in 2016. Such facilities have also sold for huge sums, including two in 2019: the first Amazon facility in Milford, which sold for $34 million, and a FedEx warehouse in Natick that sold for $52 million.
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