Amazon Ships Jobs to Antioch With Big New Lease

Amazon has signed a lease for another Nashville-area distribution hub.

By Senior Reporter, Nashville Business Journal

Updated


Amazon has done it again, signing a lease for another distribution hub in Nashville.

The goliath online retailer (Nasdaq: AMZN) is leasing a 517,500-square-foot industrial building in Antioch, according to Metro permits. The building, tucked into the southeast corner of Davidson County, is Amazon's seventh distribution facility in Greater Nashville —including one near Nashville International Airport that is opening imminently.

The Antioch lease swells Amazon's regional footprint beyond 3 million square feet. And with one potential additional lease, Amazon could more than double that tally. "Project Sam," a project proposed in Mt. Juliet, has been linked to Amazon and mirrors other code-named proposals in Memphis and Maryland also linked to Amazon. Project Sam would entail a five-story distribution hub with 3.6 million square feet of space, and about 1,000 jobs.

Amazon is leasing this 517,500-square-foot industrial building at 3818 Logistics Way, in Antioch.

It is not clear when the Antioch facility would open or how many people it would employ. Antioch is the fastest-growing piece of Davidson County, and companies have pumped several thousand jobs into that area in the past five years, spurring its revitalization.

Requests for comment to Amazon representatives were not returned on Wednesday.

Amazon employs almost 3,700 workers at five existing distribution hubs in the region, including a 125,000-square-foot distribution facility the company leased in mid-2018. More than 2,000 of the jobs in the area are full-time, according to Amazon.

Those are separate from the 5,000 office jobs Amazon has announced for its forthcoming downtown operations hub, set to open in 2021 on the Church Street side of the Nashville Yards mixed-use development.

Nashville's Distribution Realty Group LLC, partnering with Dallas-based Crow Holdings, built the so-named Interchange Center I building without tenants in hand. It opened last year.

Jimmy Love, co-managing partner of Distribution Realty, confirmed that a long-term lease had been signed but declined comment specifically about Amazon.

Love said a second round of construction will start by year's end at the Interchange Center site — creating five smaller buildings ranging in size from 132,750 square feet to 242,500 square feet.

"We look forward to building five more high-quality facilities in Antioch that will attract great companies, high-caliber jobs and tax dollars to the area," Love said in a statement.