Amazon Robotics expansion approved in Westborough

Amazon’s footprint in Westborough will continue to expand with an addition to the Amazon Robotics’ manufacturing facility in the town, which opened in October 2021. 

The Westborough Planning Board on Tuesday approved a site plan for a 100,000-square-foot building next to the 350,000-square-foot Amazon Robotics facility on 50 Otis St., which is a research-and-development subsidiary of Seattle-based retail firm Amazon. 

The new building will be located next door at 54 Otis St. and will be developed by Atlantic Management Corp., the same Framingham-based firm that developed the Amazon Robotics site.

Atlantic’s proposal includes an 80,000-square-foot high-bay warehouse space and 20,000 square feet of office space. There will be 186 parking spaces, with 55 employees projected at each daytime shift. The entire project is situated on about 11 acres of land. 

Atlantic Management bought the 54 Otis St. parcel in September 2020 for just over $1 million, according to the Town of Westborough assessors’ database. The site consists of a single-family home, which will be demolished, per the proposal. 

In late 2019, Amazon announced its plans to develop Amazon Robotics at the former site of AstraZeneca in Westborough, promising to create 200 jobs. The space opened in October and is still hiring software and robotics engineers, according to Amazon’s website. 

Atlantic Management also purchased a 93-acre parcel about five miles down the road in Westborough, which is slated to become an Amazon Last Mile Delivery Station.