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Philly finally gets a million-square-foot warehouse - but not the thousands of jobs: UPS on Red Lion
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 4370530" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/ups-red-lion-road-northeast-philadelphia-budd-plant-20200210.html" target="_blank"><strong>Philly finally gets a million-square-foot warehouse - but not the thousands of jobs: UPS on Red Lion - Philadelphia Inquirer</strong></a></p><p></p><p>It hasn’t been announced by the company, but the Inquirer has confirmed that United Parcel Service plans to build a million-square-foot facility on the 138-acre former Budd Co. property at 1 Red Lion Rd. in Northeast Philadelphia, one of the biggest available industrial properties in the city.</p><p></p><p>Plans call for 950 parking spaces, and UPS had told city officials they were planning a facility that could employ 1,000, including shift and part-time workers. But UPS has told state officials it is committed to hiring a more modest 352 full-time workers by the time it opens in 2022, and has separately said new plants in Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania cities are part of a wave of “highly automated” facilities that won’t create as many jobs per box as earlier ones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 4370530, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/ups-red-lion-road-northeast-philadelphia-budd-plant-20200210.html'][B]Philly finally gets a million-square-foot warehouse - but not the thousands of jobs: UPS on Red Lion - Philadelphia Inquirer[/B][/URL] It hasn’t been announced by the company, but the Inquirer has confirmed that United Parcel Service plans to build a million-square-foot facility on the 138-acre former Budd Co. property at 1 Red Lion Rd. in Northeast Philadelphia, one of the biggest available industrial properties in the city. Plans call for 950 parking spaces, and UPS had told city officials they were planning a facility that could employ 1,000, including shift and part-time workers. But UPS has told state officials it is committed to hiring a more modest 352 full-time workers by the time it opens in 2022, and has separately said new plants in Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania cities are part of a wave of “highly automated” facilities that won’t create as many jobs per box as earlier ones. [/QUOTE]
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