Amazon opens first Colorado facility – development in Denver next?

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By Alex Lennane

27/04/2016

It’s just a sorting centre at the moment, but Amazon has moved into Colorado, just five miles from Denver Airport – and fuelled speculation it plans to open a fulfilment centre there. The 1,500-care park also accommodates FedEx and the US Postal Service. Amazon has not announced further plans to expand in Colorado, but has begun charging sales tax there – something it does when it has a fulfilment centre in the state.

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