[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Amazon bringing 1, 000-plus jobs to former Norton Air Force Base" (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Amazon bringing 1,000-plus jobs to former Norton Air Force Base

by Susan Wolbarst
Air Force Real Property Agency Public Affairs
June 1, 2012

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.  -- Folks living here received excellent news  
recently: Amazon will be leasing a huge building, currently under  
construction at the former Norton Air Force Base, and filling it with  
more than 1,000 workers.

The 950,000-square-foot building is located on Central Avenue, east  
of Tippecanoe Avenue, in an area which once served as the base's golf  
course. It's being built by Hillwood (master developer for the former  
base) and Clarion Partners as a joint venture. It could be completed  
as soon as this autumn, according to a press release, and will  
function as a fulfillment center.

Online orders will be processed and shipped from the Norton facility,  
which will serve as the point of sale, entitling the city to some  
portion of sales taxes generated. Under a compromise worked out last  
year with California Gov. Jerry Brown, Amazon will begin collecting  
California sales tax from consumers on September 15, 2012. The  
company received a one-year delay in exchange for agreeing to build  
enough warehouses in California to create at least 10,000 new full- 
time jobs by the end of 2015.

...

For the entire release, see
http://www.safie.hq.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123304422

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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