Amazon Application Offers New Details On North Andover Project

NORTH ANDOVER, MA — A company developing a shipping center for Amazon in North Andover will demolish all but two of the buildings at 1600 Osgood St., according to an application filed with the town's Planning Department. Those buildings — known as Building 20 and Building 21 — have 399,999 square feet of space and will be renovated. The application also calls for 1,500 parking spots and new construction on the site.

The Planning Board was scheduled to discuss the proposal at its meeting Tuesday night. Hillwood LP, which is redeveloping the 167.8-acre site for Amazon, has been meeting with North Andover officials throughout the summer to get feedback on its proposal from the building, police, fire and conservation departments.

The plan calls for demolishing buildings that have a total of 1.5 million square feet of space. The plans also call for building a new, five-story, 3.8 million square-foot building and upgrades to parking, utility access, storm water management, lighting and landscaping. A 30-acre portion of the site will be converted into a large-scale, ground-mounted solar energy system.

Amazon's remake of the long-underutilized property is expected to create 1,500 jobs and generate as much as $4 million in tax revenue for North Andover. Documents also said the construction and rehabilitation of the existing buildings will create between 500 and 650 construction jobs.

In June, Special Town Meeting voters approved zoning changes and a sewer line extension, which allowed the project to move forward. The town will pay about a third of the $7 million for the sewer line extension, with the rest coming from the state.

The Planning Board's approval is crucial for keeping the project on the timeline officials outlined in June. Clearing the site will take about a year after Town Meeting's approval, with construction expected to take another 15 to 18 months. That means the center won't handle its first package until late 2021 or early 2022.

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