Amazon and Transit

[eastland]

If transit is so important to Amazon, why have they made two huge investments in the SMART opt-out communities of Livonia and Brownstown? Just curious!

[EGrant]

Because their distribution centers do not rely on mass transit like a corporate office would.

[313WX]

Because their distribution centers do not rely on mass transit like a corporate office would.

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[401don]

The in-demand young techie should have options. The warehouse guy can walk to work.

[stasu1213]

Detroit should had focused on getting Amazon's fulfillment centers within the city. Failed leadership on this issue

[swingline]

If transit is so important to Amazon, why have they made two huge investments in the SMART opt-out communities of Livonia and Brownstown? Just curious!

A distribution center obviously needs lots of acreage and can't be built on a dense urban site like would be possible for an HQ facility. But that doesn't mean that a distribution center could never be transit accessible. If Amazon believes in promoting itself as an environmentally friendly company that provides living wage jobs to working class folks, it should site its major metropolitan area distribution centers in transit accessible communities. It dropped the ball when it selected Livonia and Brownstown.

[Richard]

^ it depends on if one considers $12 per hour a livable wage,they call them fulfillment centers but they are still warehouses and working in a warehouse used to actually pay a living wage.