By Paul Schwedelson – Reporter, Philadelphia Business Journal
Amazon.com Inc. plans to demolish a vacant office building in King of Prussia and replace it with a 99,300-square-foot warehouse.
The e-commerce giant would occupy the future warehouse at 760 Moore Road, just off West Valley Forge Road. The site is a half-mile from Route 422 and near both I-276 and I-76.
The last-mile delivery station is planned to facilitate deliveries to Montgomery and Chester counties, Amazon spokesperson Smitha Rao said in an email.
Upper Merion Township Planning Officer Jarrett Lash said Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to use its electric vehicle fleet at the site.
A 260,000-square-foot office building on the 25-acre property would be demolished, according to plans submitted to Upper Merion Township.
Amazon purchased 760 Moore Road in June 2021 for $26.5 million, Montgomery County property records show.
O’Neill Properties Group, now MLP Ventures, bought the building when it housed a vacant warehouse in 2000. The developer converted the building into office space and then sold it in 2002 for $27.9 million to PFPC Inc., a division of PNC Financial Services Group, which later came under the purview of Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
BNY Mellon used the building as an operations center for almost two decades before selling the property in April 2021 for $24 million to E. Kahn Development. At the time, the Moore Road site drew interest from investors looking to convert it for life sciences use or back to warehouse space. E. Kahn Development owned the site for just two months before selling it to Amazon for $2.5 million more than it paid to acquire the property.
Despite owning the vacant property for nearly five years, Amazon hasn’t moved forward with development until now. The plans come as the e-commerce giant said last week that it is cutting 16,000 jobs in the company's second major round of layoffs in recent months. That includes closing all of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores, resulting in nearly 1,000 layoffs across six stores in the Philadelphia area.
Full story: https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2026/02/05/amazon-warehouse-king-of-prussia-last-mile.html
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