OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:38 pm
I was up on the north end yesterday and got a couple of shots of the new "Fulfillment Center" building that Amazon is building in northern Sioux Falls. According to our local news, it will be 640,000 sq. ft. and will employ 1000 workers when completed and open in 2022.It is just a stones throw from the intersection of Interstates 29 and 90.
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They are trying to build one in our town. The land is currently being used as a golf course, and the owners are selling. Every time they propose something for that land, the NIMBY (not in my back yard) crowd flares up. I totally get it, I wouldn't necessarily want that behemoth in my neighborhood either. But the jobs and the tax revenue should be good for the town. And as it's close to the highway, an on/off ramp could be added which would mitigate most of the traffic concerns.
Our town isn't getting any smaller, and with the boom in housing and developing, we'll need some new businesses as well.