Amazon Non-Sort Facility

[Pete]

Can you update your map showing all the amazon facilities and how this one fits in?

I did a comprehensive summary of all their OKC facilities and included a map here:

https://www.okctalk.com/content.php?...ilities-in-OKC

[shawnw]

Yes I saw that one, sorry I thought this was yet another facility aside from all those, getting harder to keep up/keep track of them all.

Did you find out what that one was I sent you at NW 10/Portland. Small building with Amazon banner on it?

[Pete]

Yes I saw that one, sorry I thought this was yet another facility aside from all those, getting harder to keep up/keep track of them all.

Did you find out what that one was I sent you at NW 10/Portland. Small building with Amazon banner on it?

Haha, yes that is why I did the summary! It can be confusing.

Not sure about the facility at 10th & Portland. I'll see what I can find out.

[shawnw]

For the record, taken on 1 November. SE corner 10/Portland, from the OnCue across the street. Seems like it's on the campus of OSU-OKC, maybe it's a joint training venture between the two.

[Pete]

For the record, taken on 1 November. SE corner 10/Portland, from the OnCue across the street. Seems like it's on the campus of OSU-OKC, maybe it's a joint training venture between the two.

It's a recruiting center:

Amazon recruiters return to OSU-OKC for extensive hiring push

A multi-month hiring event aimed at identifying employees for Amazon facilities in Oklahoma City will kick off Oct. 1 at Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City.

Amazon recruiters will be based at the Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City (OSU-OKC) campus, 900 N. Portland Ave., for several months as they seek employees for their distribution center near Interstate 40 and Council Road and their delivery center near Interstate 35 and Hefner Road.

Recruiters are seeking part-time employees as Amazon prepares for its peak shopping season.

Processing for job applicants will take place at the OSU-OKC Engineering Technology Center, which is located at the northwest corner of the campus, near NW 10 and Portland Avenue.

[shawnw]

Ah ha, thanks!

[Pete]

Starting to move fast now:

[David]

This may be a dumb question, but why is it raised with extra dirt hills instead of a flat lot?

[Pete]

This may be a dumb question, but why is it raised with extra dirt hills instead of a flat lot?

I believe that is dirt from flattening the massive area for the warehouse.

Also, I believe what you are seeing are raised berms for detention ponds made necessary by the topography.

[OKCbyTRANSFER]

Now they need to widen 89th St to handle that traffic at I-44.

[drinner-okc]

Also the floor will probably be loading dock high for trailers.

[ChrisHayes]

Now they need to widen 89th St to handle that traffic at I-44.

I agree. I go on 89th a lot and traffic is getting terrible there.

[G.Walker]

I wonder why they haven't widened I-44 to 3 lanes in each direction, from Newcastle to Oklahoma City, long over due.

[ChrisHayes]

I wonder why they haven't widened I-44 to 3 lanes in each direction, from Newcastle to Oklahoma City, long over due.

I believe it's on the drawing board, but it needs to be expedited.

[shawnw]

https://slashdot.org/story/21/05/12/...turnover-goals

[mugofbeer]

I fail to see how this could possibly be advantageous for a non-sales business. I cry heresay.

[Pete]

The new non-sort warehouse is moving fast just north of the sorted distribution center:

[Pete]

Almost complete. Hope they can find enough workers:

[bombermwc]

So what goes on here with these shorter roof heights?

[Pete]

So what goes on here with these shorter roof heights?

It's a one-level warehouse.

They will be handling large items like furniture, appliances and grills.

The other Amazon facility to the south has multiple levels for tons of smaller items.

[ChrisHayes]

The new non-sort warehouse is moving fast just north of the sorted distribution center:

How do you get these updated satellite views? I go to Google and it doesn't even show the first warehouse yet

[T. Jamison]

How do you get these updated satellite views? I go to Google and it doesn't even show the first warehouse yet

I don't know about Pete, but the Oklahoma County Assessor has aerial imagery from April 2021. Google Earth has September 2020 for that site.

[catch22]

Go to Google Earth (the application, not the website) and select Historical Imagery from the top. This will poll ALL imagery available, and often includes recent ones they have yet to release to the main servers. Often times due to a lower resolution, or small geographical area.

[Pete]

I don't know about Pete, but the Oklahoma County Assessor has aerial imagery from April 2021. Google Earth has September 2020 for that site.

Correct.

[Pete]

They are either open or very close to it: