Amazon announces 500 new jobs in Goodyear
Amazon.com Inc. has confirmed plans to open a new fulfillment center in Goodyear and hire 500 workers.
Seattle-based retail giant Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) signed on for the full 1.2 million square-foot warehouse at the Prologis 303 Business Park in April, as the Phoenix Business Journal previously reported. This was Amazon’s third industrial lease signed in 2024 — it leased up two other buildings each totaling at least 1 million square feet in Buckeye and in Glendale, bringing its total new leases this year to 3.5 million square feet.
Amazon officials initially declined to comment on its Goodyear facility in April but said July 24 that the company is focused on growing in the West Valley suburb. Its new facility is located near the southwest corner of Cotton Lane and Camelback Road near the Loop 303.
“Goodyear has a great workforce, and we’re thrilled to incorporate additional talent into the remarkable team currently contributing to our higher standard of operational excellence and consistently delivering exceptional customer experiences every day,” said Tim Hou, Amazon’s manager of economic development policy, in a city of Goodyear announcement that confirmed the company’s plans to bring 500 jobs to the area.
Amazon has leased at least 15 million square feet nationally this year, including its leases in Arizona, following a period of slower growth and efforts to put space back on the market.
Anthony Lydon, Marc Hertzberg, Riley Gilbert, John Lydon and Kelly Royle of JLL are the leasing brokers for the Prologis project.
Amazon operates another 855,000-square-foot facility in Goodyear just north of the city’s airport. That facility opened in 2020 as Amazon planned to hire 1,000 in Goodyear.
Its newest fulfillment center along the Loop 303 will sit adjacent to a future Aldi distribution center. The German grocer recently submitted initial plans to the city of Goodyear for a nearly 570,000-square-foot warehouse, which could eventually expand to nearly 980,000 square feet, according to the company’s site plans.
Amid a flurry of new industrial buildings delivering in the Valley, Amazon has helped bring down the vacancy rate, which reached 9% in Q2 for industrial in Phoenix, Colliers International research found.
The second quarter saw about 5.3 million square feet of net absorption while 10 million square feet of new space was delivered, according to Colliers. An additional 28 million square feet was under construction.
Speculative construction has started to slow down but the industrial market is still driving forward with a boost from a significant number of build-to-suit projects for employers.
So far this year, the Phoenix industrial market has seen nearly 22 million square feet of new product come online and about 11 million square feet of absorption, Avison Young research found.