Amazon coming to Findlay

Amazon.com will open operations in an existing 100,000-square-foot building in northeastern Findlay this summer and will be hiring 160 employees. The company released its plans publicly this week. Its identity was kept secret last week when Findlay City Planning Commission approved a plan for a parking lot and truck maneuvering areas at the site. The location's current address is 2615 Crystal Ave., but it will have a separate driveway for trucks off Production Drive. The site will soon be getting its address changed to Production Drive, and trucks will not be traveling Crystal Avenue to enter and leave the site, officials have said. Most of the loading to be done at the distribution center will involve van size vehicles, not trucks, said Tim Mayle, director of Findlay-Hancock County Economic Development. Amazon is taking bids for the improvements to be made at the site in preparation for the distribution center's opening, he said. The building Amazon will occupy was constructed in 2018 as a spec building by Humble Robinson Group, of Bellefontaine. Humble Robinson will be leasing the space to Amazon, which will invest over $5 million in the facility. "The site location, along with a business-friendly community, attracted us to build the spec building," said Jerry Robinson, managing partner of Humble Robinson. "Findlay is one of the fastest growing communities in northwest Ohio." The spec building site was developed in partnership with Jobs Ohio, Regional Growth Partnership, City of Findlay, Ohio Department of Transportation and Hancock Regional Planning Commission. Wilin: 419-427-8413