With Amazon.com ranked as the top consumer website on this week’s Cyber Monday, Hamilton and Bradley counties will link to a company with a bright future if the online retailer builds two distribution centers in the area, officials say.
“It’s a good solid company that has a lot of great potential for growth,” said Brad Eilts, an economic development official in Montgomery County, Kan., where Amazon has had a 1.4 million-square-foot center since the mid-1990s.
Buddy Rizer, an economic developer in Loudoun County, Va., said Amazon already has distribution and data centers there and plans to invest $60 million in a next-generation data center.
“They have a very significant footprint,” Rizer said.
Fred Kiga, Amazon’s director of policy, said Wednesday that the company’s two local facilities – both 1 million square feet – could be up by Christmas 2011.