Amazon Sets Its Sight on Jersey City
As first reported by Bloomberg.com, Amazon.com Inc. is looking to add office space in New Jersey as it expands in the New York City region.
The e-commerce giant is close to a deal for roughly 400,000-square feet (37,000 square meters) of space on the Jersey City waterfront, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the talks are private.
The proposed deal is said to be happening at Harborside 1 at a Mack-Cali Realty Corp. complex.
Built in 1929 for the Pennsylvania Railroad and newly reimagined from the ground up, Harborside buildings sit along the Jersey City waterfront as a contiguous trio of low-rise structures ranging from eight to 12 floors high.
The 21st-century upgrade is designed Elkus Manfredi Architects and is being developed in a collaboration between Mack-Cali Realty Corporation and SJP Properties. The three buildings sit on a long rectangular parcel bound by Harborside Place to the north, Hudson Street to the west, and Christopher Columbus Drive to the south.
Plaza Construction is in charge of the construction, which had a price tag of approximately $75 million.
Amazon has been expanding in New York despite the collapse of its plan to build a second headquarters in Queens in 2019. The firm has recently been in talks to sublease offices in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards from JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bloomberg reported in August.
In December of 2020, Amazon opened a new 95,000-square-foot delivery station in Jersey City at 79 Thomas McGovern Drive. The new facility created more than 70 full-time associate jobs, all paying at least $15.75 per hour, in addition to hundreds of driver opportunities for Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners and Amazon Flex drivers.
Through these driving opportunities, people will be able to either build their own business delivering Amazon packages or work as independent contractors with the flexibility to be their own bosses and create their own delivery schedules.
Amazon Sets Its Sight on Jersey City
