Business
Amazon announced two new distribution facilities, one in Chesapeake employing 500, and one in Suffolk with 1000 workers. Some facts on these new facilities, which should come online next year, include that the Suffolk facility, at nearly four million square feet, will be the largest building in all of Virginia. In addition to more than fifteen hundred workers, the two facilities will also employ two thousand robots. What has been lost in the excitement of these two facilities is that Amazon is also building six solar farms to generate its own electricity, minimizing its carbon footprint. Importantly, it took the combined efforts of both cities, Chesapeake and Suffolk, but the projects also needed cooperation from Norfolk, which they got. Maybe regionalism is here. To learn more, visit odu.edu/business. This has been a Strome Business Minute, presented by the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University.