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_urbanite · Thursday at 1:41 PM

Amazon buys 50 acres for a new fulfilment centre in Edmonton

Tech giant Amazon has acquired a large industrial property in Edmonton and has plans for a new fulfillment centre, Western Investor has learned.

The deal saw Amazon Canada Fulfillment Services ULC acquire 50 acres at 16404 145 Ave. in northwest Edmonton, near the intersection of 170 Street NW and Anthony Henday Drive NW, for $39.7 million in the final quarter of 2025. That works out to just over $793,000 per acre.

Located within the city borders

archited · Thursday at 4:07 PM

^ And the City's retail scene in terms of street locales takes another gigantic hit. There is a well-defined choice between ordering online and having deliveries to your door vs supporting local retailers in bricks-and-mortar locations on the City Streets.

channing76 · Thursday at 6:33 PM

_urbanite said:
Amazon buys 50 acres for a new fulfilment centre in Edmonton

Located within the city borders

This the 4th one in the metro?

johnnyboy · Thursday at 7:08 PM

archited said:
^ And the City's retail scene in terms of street locales takes another gigantic hit. There is a well-defined choice between ordering online and having deliveries to your door vs supporting local retailers in bricks-and-mortar locations on the City Streets.

I'm not a big Amazon customer (maybe 3-4 times a year; their product search is terrible now), but their growth in this city seems almost exponential. Three years ago, 9 stops away generally meant within my neighbourhood or the next neighbourhood over when tracking a parcel delivery. These days, 9 stops away is often on my own street.

roe_ · Thursday at 7:41 PM

johnnyboy said:
I'm not a big Amazon customer (maybe 3-4 times a year; their product search is terrible now), but their growth in this city seems almost exponential. 2-3 years ago, 9 stops away generally meant within your neighbourhood or the next neighbourhood over when tracking a parcel delivery. These days, 9 stops away is often on my own street.

Why isn't there any competition? We used to have Consumers Distributing, which was essentially an analog version of Amazon...

David A · Thursday at 7:44 PM

roe_ said:
Why isn't there any competition? We used to have Consumers Distributing, which was essentially an analog version of Amazon...

Consumers Distributing is an interesting analogue, although it did have a number of retail locations it was really set up for catalogue shopping. I only looked at a few smaller items there, I don't know if they did much home delivery.

ADob · Thursday at 8:42 PM

We got rid of our Prime membership because we weren't watching any of the shows and I found that it was wayyy too easy to buy stuff we didn't need because it was a click of the mouse, which skips over the rational thinking parts of the brain. I'll admit, I don't miss it.

Gronk! · Thursday at 8:47 PM

I tend to avoid Amazon like the plague because I don't like the idea of giving my hard-earned cash to Jeff Bezos, a man who already has more money than God.

David A · Thursday at 9:31 PM

Gronk! said:
I tend to avoid Amazon like the plague because I don't like the idea of giving my hard-earned cash to Jeff Bezos, a man who already has more money than God.

I buy a few things from them, mainly office supplies, if their price is better than say the big box (also US owned) company that has several retail stores here.

I suppose the warehouse and delivery people are employed locally and some of the product I get seems to come from Canadian suppliers, so its not all bad.