Amazon.com, Inc. announced its continued investment in the metro Detroit area with five new buildings to support operations closer to customers. The sites are expected to create more than 2,000 permanent full- and part-time jobs with a minimum $15 per hour wage and comprehensive benefits starting on the employee’s first day. As Amazon grows in Detroit, it is committed to contributing in a variety of ways to the local community where teams live and work, including by supporting food banks with monetary contributions and delivery services, funding computer science education for underserved and underrepresented students, and providing in-kind donations to meet immediate and basic needs. Most recently, Amazon donated $100,000 to the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) to help the district enhance its science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs and expand its resources. Beyond the donation, Amazon plans to support the school’s STEM programs with hands-on learning and mentorship opportunities in the coming year. In total, Amazon invested over $2.5 million in 2020 to multiple nonprofit organizations in the region, including: Beaumont Children’s Center; Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit; Cass Community Social Services Inc.; COTS of Detroit Forgotten Harvest; Friends of Animals Detroit; Forgotten Harvest; Matrix Human Services. On one of the five new sites, Amazon plans to open a new 823,000 square-foot fulfillment center in Detroit, creating 1,200 new full-time jobs when it launches in 2021. The site will be the fourth fulfillment center in the state using Amazon robotics to help associates pick, pack and ship smaller items to customers. The other four sites include a same-day facility, XL fulfillment center and two sortation centers that play critical roles in the fulfillment of large products and middle mile, or the process of transporting packages between Amazon sites before last mile delivery for customers. Packages are shipped to sort centers from Amazon Air hubs, gateways and fulfillment centers to be sorted by zip code before being transported to delivery stations or last-mile delivery partners for customer delivery. In 2021, Amazon’s new fulfillment and sortation centers in Detroit include: Detroit – Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center; Hazel Park – Sub-Same-Day Fulfillment Center; Pinnacle Park – Amazon “XLFC” Fulfillment Center; Pinnacle Park – Amazon Sort Center; Plymouth – Amazon Sort Center; Pontiac – Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center. Amazon currently operates 10 sites in Detroit that support customer fulfillment and delivery operations, including four facilities that launched in 2020.