Locator: 48831LOCAL.
Well, it took me to come up with a pithy counterpart to "the Bakken Revolution," and the "Sixth Industrial Revolution." It's "the Texas Expansion.
Today, another announcement of a huge local project: a new warehouse facility serving the needs of the DFW area has been completed: a 262,184-square-foot warehouse, along SH 26, SH 121 and I-635, across from Bass Pro Shops. and the Embassy Suites by Hilton Grapevine DFW.
To put that in perspective:
The average size of an Amazon fulfillment center is around 800,000 square feet. These large warehouses are typically used for sorting, picking, packing, and shipping customer orders. While 800,000 square feet is the average, Amazon also operates fulfillment centers that range from 600,000 to 1 million square feet. These larger facilities often handle bulky items like furniture or outdoor equipment. Some of the largest facilities can exceed 3 million square feet, like the one in Wilmington, Delaware, which is 3.8 million square feet.
Can you imagine? I cannot. The warehouse pictured above is slightly less than 300,000 square feet. Amazon's average FC runs about 3x that size. And then that Wilmington, Delaware FC? Almost 4 million square feet.
I think the average Wal-Mart runs about 100,000 square feet.
