Amazon plans to open a new fulfillment center in Middletown, Del., by next November that would employ 849 full-time workers. Alan Levin, director of the state's Economic Development Office, confirmed the online retailer "has applied for state money to help build an approximately 1.25 million-square-foot building southeast of U.S. 301," the News Journal reported.
The development office has offered a $3.47-million grant package from the Delaware Strategic Fund "to support new job creation and the project's capital expenditures," and Amazon, with Middletown as its sponsor, has applied for up to $4 million in grant money from the New Jobs Infrastructure Fund, the News Journal wrote.
Both state applications are up for approval December 12, and Middletown could also offer property tax breaks to developer Duke Realty Limited Partnership of Indianapolis, which has worked with Amazon in Arizona and Tennessee.
