Amazon plans to build a 248,687-square-foot robotics-equipped sorting and fulfillment warehouse in Georgetown, Texas, at an estimated cost of $48 million, according to a state construction filing.
The building fits Amazon’s Sub-Same-Day class, These smaller facilities combine fulfillment, sortation and last-mile handoff under one roof to speed up local deliveries. The project signals Amazon is adding same-day capacity in mid-size metros, a smaller footprint than its mega-hub builds.
The Georgetown site was reportedly bought by Amazon through a shell entity in 2021 for a warehouse that never broke ground. The project has not been announced by Amazon. All details come from the state filing.
How it works: A Sub-Same-Day site collapses three buildings into one. Instead of moving through a fulfillment center, sortation center, and a delivery station, the order moves straight from robotic shelving to a Flex driver in the same building.
That reduces handling and travel time for same-day deliveries. The Georgetown filing describes a robotics sorting and storage area, specialty and cold storage, and incidental office and support space.
The robotics: The facility will use an older and lower-cost version of Amazon's automation system. Robotic drive units bring shelves to stationary workers. It is an earlier generation than Amazon's newer Sequoia storage system and the Proteus and Sparrow robots used in its largest fulfillment centers.
Zoom out: Target and Walmart are making similar bets on smaller automated nodes closer to customers over bigger robotics hubs. Target is scaling a new sortation center tier to more than 15 facilities on a $100 million investment. Walmart is retrofitting regional DCs and building Symbotic-powered pickup and delivery centers. Kroger has already moved in the opposite direction, paying $350 million to exit three Ocado-automated mega-warehouses.
What's next: The filing lists a groundbreaking in late August and completion by mid-2027. Amazon's only public comment is a spokesperson line that its team is “in the early stages” of bringing “a new operations facility to Georgetown” for faster local delivery and new jobs. The company disclosed no job count.
