I looked on Bernalillo County's website and found the building permit details for the Amazon fulfillment center in Albuquerque. It confirms that the building will be 5 floors. The building will be located at 12945 Comfort Way NW and is being built under the code name of "Project Chico" which is a hallmark of the secretive Amazon fulfillment center projects.
http://epermits.bernco.gov/CitizenAc...howInspection=
If the building is only 465,000 sq ft, as was reported, then that means it would have a footprint less than 100,000 sq ft (93,000 sq ft), which is 1/3rd smaller than a Walmart Supercenter and smaller than the size of a Home Depot as well. Looking again at the rendering which was posted to Twitter earlier this year and I don't believe it depicts a building with only a 100,000 sq ft footprint:
I really do believe the 465,000 sq ft figure is the size of the building footprint. Times that by five levels and you get 2,325,000 sq ft, which is close enough to the original rumored size. When looking at the rendering you see that the ground floor has an entrance area and at least one other 'bump out' on the side which do not rise the full five floors. Allowing for that difference in the top 4 floorplates then I'd estimate that the buiding is just slightly smaller than 2.3 million square feet.
That size is in the ballpark of the fulfillment center under construction in Spokane that has 2.6 million sq ft and is gearing up to open. The Spokane fulfillment center will have 1,500 employees, so perhaps that is more like what Albuquerque will have.
https://www.kxly.com/progress-report...n-west-plains/
This is absolutely a huge project and major win for Albuquerque. Again, we needed to make sure we got one of these fulfillment centers here and did not continue to be served by ones in other cities, and to make sure we made up for and got back the jobs lost here in the national retail shift.