Amazon May Open Delivery Station on Former SFO Parking Lot

Amazon.com may open a new parcel delivery station on a closed San Bruno parking lot near San Francisco International Airport, but it’s not giving up on stalled plans to open a similar last-mile distribution center in San Francisco, according to a company representative.

The e-commerce giant has been in talks with San Bruno city officials about turning the parking lot at 1000 San Mateo Avenue that it bought for $96 million in August 2020 into a new delivery station, according to the San Francisco Business Times, citing “multiple sources with knowledge of the company’s plans.”

The Seattle-based company has not yet filed any formal paperwork to build on the nearly 8-acre site, but it is expected to do so within the next few weeks. The site was previously used by SkyPark as an 1,800-spot parking lot, including 950 covered spots, before the parking firm went out of business in January 2020.

An Amazon rep told the Business Times that it would have more to share on its plans in San Bruno soon, but that the “potential and planned projects in San Bruno and the Bay Area are not related.”

Those Bay Area projects include paused plans for a 725,000-square-foot warehouse on 900 7th Street in San Francisco, where city officials placed an 18-month moratorium on such distribution centers just over a year ago.

Since the moratorium, Amazon has closed a distribution center it leased in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. Also, it has signaled that it would look to points south to expand, signing a new 345,000-square-foot lease on a 15-acre industrial site in Brisbane last fall, and buying a former Owens Corning factory complex in Santa Clara for just under $240 million last month.

–Emily Landes