Submitted by BobQuasit t3_10odncy in massachusetts
I don't think I've ever seen anything as huge as this building, including Costcos and BJ's. It's on Route 1 on the east side, in the Foxborough area or thereabouts. It's just unbelievably gigantic. Does anyone know what it's going to be?
Amazon if there’s a 24/7 detail
I can't imagine Amazon building a facility that size around here without it getting into the news. Hell, it would have had to have gone through the legislature, wouldn't it?
No idea how that works. Recently there was a story about Amazon closing facilities in the Worcester area. The story conveniently left out that they were building larger ones on 146 in Uxbrige and another in Marlboro.
Another clue is if they are transitioning the closest intersection into a roundabout. Easier for the Amazon trucks to navigate those.
The closest major section is a roundabout, sort of. It links Route 1 and 95.
I drove by the place again about an hour ago, and it's a few minutes south of the Foxborough town line. It's at least three or four stories tall, and there are large windows along the ground floor level, many of them arched. That doesn't fit with it being a warehouse, a Costco, a BJ's, or a Sam's Club. Nor does it fit with being a mall! Not that I would expect anyone to be building a mall these days, what with the retail apocalypse and the Emerald Mall (and most others) going down the drain!
We have a winner! Thank you!
I'm kind of disappointed that it's a warehouse, though. That's a boring part of Route 1. It needs something more fun than a warehouse.
FEMA Prison.
Idk looks similar to the Amazon being built in Revere right now so not sure if that is really all that newsworthy.
Do Amazon facilities have large ground-level windows? I picture them as being more like fortresses to protect Jeff Bezos's wealth against a possible uprising of the peasantry. And why would you have windows in such a place? You don't want people looking in to see workers urinating into bottles and being crushed by robotic machinery, and you certainly don't want the workers to get a glimpse of freedom outside.
Seriously, none of it makes sense to me. There's no parking garage going up nearby or anything like that.
Are they windows or garage bays? I can’t tell in this photo. The one in Revere I think is going to be a drive thru facility so it does have giant openings on the ground floor.
The windows were on the other side, the southern side. I don't normally go that way, but I'll try to get some photos next time. At least some of them had arched tops. I was driving so I didn't get a really good look, but they really looked like large windows, not garage bays.
Hmm interesting
Looks like you were right, they ARE garage bays! My mistake!
Movie studio?
Good idea! But that still doesn't jibe with large windows on the ground floor. I'm pretty sure that movie studios wouldn't want natural light coming in. Also, I'd be frankly amazed if that large a movie studio came into Massachusetts.
Many movie studios are opening in MA. Some are being built, some are warehouses converted to be studios. The windows would be used for the production offices.
Windows on the ground floor? Is this a joke?
Those are garage bays for trucks to load and unload.....at a warehouse....
.....That's a warehouse....
Disastrous-Ticket-62 t1_j6e6hu6 wrote
Any prefabed concrete building like that is either Amazon or another big box distributor