Amazon executive offers peek at company's site selection process

The global online retailer depends on a vast network of distribution facilites to deliver its wares, but few know what it looks for when picking a site.

By Louis Llovio
| 5:00 a.m. June 18, 2025
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Amazon's delivery support facilities are the backbone of its operations. It has more than 70 in Florida.

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You don’t get to be one of the largest companies on the planet by being careless. And whatever you may think of Amazon, one thing the company isn’t is cavalier about is its operations.

Attendees at Urban Land Institute’s 2025 Florida Summit, held at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point in Bonita Springs, got a rare glimpse of one of those operations at the June 9-10 conference: A peek into how the company goes about choosing where it will build its distribution centers.