Signage along Aurora Avenue North for a new Amazon Fresh store. ![]() The big box chain has one other Seattle location, in SoDo.Īmazon said wages at its new store start at $17.75 per hour, with comprehensive benefits and a hiring bonus of $1,000. The closest grocery competition is across busy Highway 99, where a Sprouts Farmers Market and Asian Family Market sit in a plaza next to a Hobby Lobby.Ĭostco is also reportedly looking to open a location along Aurora Avenue North, just a bit north of Amazon near North 135th Street in an old Sam’s Club location. The 9.98-acre Aurora Shopping Center is already home to a Planet Fitness location, Starbucks, Burger King, Key Bank, Aurora Donuts and more. Spaces of 15,000 and 8,800 square feet on either side of the store are still available. Plans identify the grocery space as 35,715 square feet. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)Ĭonstruction workers were busy moving in and out of the North Seattle location Wednesday morning. ![]() Workers are seen inside an Amazon Fresh store under construction in North Seattle. ![]() An employee who answered the phone Wednesday at Dick’s said the word in the plaza is that Amazon is coming in, but no signage has appeared yet.Īmazon did not comment on the Federal Way location. Plans show that 766,705-square-foot mall is currently anchored by Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Century Theaters and Kohl’s. The company is also building out its network of Amazon Go convenience stores, and still operates the Amazon Fresh delivery service.Īccording to the real estate firm Kidder Mathews, Amazon is also planning a new store south of Seattle in Federal Way, Wash., at 1928 S. The Amazon Fresh stores are part of Amazon’s fast-growing brick-and-mortar grocery expansion across the country, following its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017, as it tries to take a bigger bite of the $750 billion U.S.
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