FedEx to build $190M distribution center in Murfreesboro

September 1, 2016 at 7:23 a.m. | Updated September 1, 2016 at 7:23 a.m.

by Associated Press

FILE - This June 21, 2011 file photo shows a Federal Express shipping envelope in Milwaukee. Prosecutors said Monday, June 13, 2016 that FedEx delivered packages containing illegal prescription drugs for internet pharmacies even after it noticed that authorities were cracking down on the businesses, as a trial began over drug trafficking charges against the shipping giant. ((AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
FILE - This June 21, 2011 file photo shows a Federal Express shipping envelope in Milwaukee. Prosecutors said Monday, June 13, 2016 that FedEx delivered packages containing illegal prescription drugs for internet pharmacies even after it noticed that authorities were cracking down on the businesses, as a trial began over drug trafficking charges against the shipping giant. ((AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - FedEx has announced plans to build a $190 million distribution center in Murfreesboro.

The Daily News Journal reports that the Memphis-based shipping company will add the equivalent of 200 full-time positions to work at the 1-million-square-foot facility.

About 40 of the new positions will pay an average of $53,500 per year, while the remaining jobs will pay an average of $24,000 annually.

Brian Hercules, the vice president for economic development at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce, says that there are hundreds of additional contract jobs like long-haul drivers that will also gain work through the facility.

Construction is set to begin by the end of the year and scheduled to be complete by early 2018.

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