>>Seattle-based Amazon.com will lease a seven-acre distribution warehouse in Nevada to help speed up book, music and video deliveries that now may take as long as a week.
The warehouse, located 30 miles east of Reno in Fernley, Nev., will mean faster delivery of products by about one day to Western U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and Phoenix, a company spokesman said.
Amazon.com is leasing the facility from San Francisco-based Panattoni Development for an undisclosed sum and will start operations there in the first half of the year.
Some Amazon.com employees will be transferred to the Nevada site, which is expected to employ about 300 people by the end of the year, spokesman Bill Curry said. The number of employees depends on whether and how many workers want to transfer there, he said.
The site is Amazon.com's third distribution center and more than doubles the current square footage at its Seattle and Delaware sites combined, Curry said. That will give the company more room to store books, music and videos, helping decrease waiting times for shipments to be sent, he said.
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