The Amazon.com fulfillment center under construction in the Galloway area of North Little Rock will cost $105 million and total more than 1.2 million square feet, according to a building permit the city issued to the contractor, Alston Construction Co. Inc., a national firm with an office in Collierville, Tenn.
The owner of the one-story building at 130001 U.S. 70 is listed in the permit application as CDP Development Inc., a California firm with an Atlanta office. Project Runner, as the project is called, includes 1,034,626 feet of warehouse space, 24,395 square feet of office space and a mezzanine level totaling 259,272 square feet.
The permit was first reported by Arkansas Business.
Of the 180 acres available on the site, Project Runner will “disturb” 110 acres, according to a construction stormwater permit issued by the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment.
The North Little Rock fulfillment center, which the company said will handle bulky non-sortable and employ more than 500 full-time workers, is the second one under construction in Central Arkansas for the global technology and online retail giant. Amazon also has opened two smaller facilities to facilitate “last-mile” segments of delivery.