Amazon’s New Multistory Warehouse Aims to Cut Delivery Times
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 10, 2019–Keiko Morris (subscription)
Amazon agreed to take space in a first-of-its-kind three-story warehouse, a new type of distribution center that could reduce delivery times in congested cities to hours rather than days. While common in densely populated Asian and European cities, modern warehouses with multiple floors have been absent until recently in the U.S., where higher land and construction costs deterred developers.
