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Amazon Expands Office Footprint, Investing $1.4B in 6 U.S. Cities
Seattle-based Amazon plans to create 3,500 new tech and corporate jobs across six cities in the United States. The company will expand its Tech Hubs in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York (Manhattan), Phoenix, and San Diego. The giant e-commerce retailer will invest more than $1.4 billion in these new offices, which will host teams supporting businesses across the company including AWS, Alexa, Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, OpsTech and Amazon Fresh, among others.
Amazon will expand the existing Dallas Tech Hub at its Galleria location in North Dallas, adding more than 100,000 square feet of space and 600 tech and corporate roles. In Manhattan, Amazon plans to create 2,000 new jobs and has acquired the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building, where the company plans to open a new 630,000-square-foot office.
Amazon’s Denver Tech Hub will grow by an additional 100 jobs with the addition of 20,000 square feet of new office space. More than 25,000 square feet of office space was acquired in Detroit to provide space for an additional 100 jobs.
The company’s 90,000-square-foot Phoenix Tech Hub expansion at 100 Mill will bring more than 500 new jobs. In San Diego, an addition of more than 40,000 square feet of office space will allow for the creation of 200 new jobs.
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