Amazon is converting abandoned malls into fulfillment centers

Published April 7, 2021 8:31pm ET



Amazon is on a shopping spree — for abandoned malls.

The e-tailer is snatching up shuttered shopping malls throughout the nation and converting them into distribution centers. Amazon’s recent acquisitions include malls in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Knoxville, Tennessee, both of which the technology giant purchased last month. Last December, Amazon won approval from a local planning board in Worcester, Massachusetts, to convert the city’s Greendale Mall into a 121,000-square foot distribution center. In total, Amazon purchased 25 shopping centers between 2016 and 2019, according to a report by Coresight Research.

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