Amazon has quietly lined up one of the East Bay's most tricked-out modern warehouses, but the move into San Leandro is far from a done deal. The e-commerce heavyweight has a lease tied to Prologis Nexus, a newly rebuilt Class A industrial building on Doolittle Drive, yet the agreement lives or dies on city approvals that have not arrived. Without permits and a business license in hand, the lease sits in limbo.
Lease hinges on local approvals
According to The Real Deal, Amazon signed the lease last quarter for the 266,000-square-foot building at 1345 Doolittle Drive, but the company can walk away if it fails to secure a business license within a set time window. The Real Deal reports that the city told the Business Times it has not yet received any application from Amazon and that staff plan to work with both Amazon and Prologis on proposed site changes. That contingency language is what keeps the deal on shaky ground for now.
Power, height and a rebuild
The property in question, Prologis Nexus, is a 266,000-square-foot warehouse that replaced an aging, roughly 60-year-old industrial building and was rebuilt for high-throughput operations. Marketing materials from Prologis tout 40-foot clear heights, heavy electrical service at 5,200 amps and generous employee and trailer parking, all catnip for automated or high-volume last-mile users. The facility also includes Class A office space and electric-vehicle infrastructure, according to the company.
Prologis' Doolittle push
Just down Doolittle Drive, public records show Prologis is advancing another big warehouse project at 880 Doolittle Drive: roughly 244,573 square feet of industrial space with about 15,000 square feet of offices, which the city signed off on through environmental review in May 2025. Those details are laid out in CEQA documents. Industry coverage also points out that Amazon previously arranged a smaller build-to-suit with Prologis on the Doolittle corridor in 2020 but later backed out, a reversal described in CoStar's reporting on the site's redevelopment plans.
City and industry angle
San Leandro officials have been actively pushing industrial redevelopment along Doolittle as part of a broader effort to hold on to manufacturing and logistics jobs while upgrading a tired building stock. City materials and local business coverage emphasize sustainability features and above-market power capacity as selling points designed to lure tenants such as last-mile and automated distribution operators, according to the San Francisco Business Times. In that context, it is no surprise that staff say they are prepared to work with Prologis and any prospective operator to iron out permitting issues.
Bay Area context
Regionally, Amazon keeps expanding even as individual deals stall or shift. The company is pushing ahead on a roughly 710,000-square-foot parcel delivery facility in San Francisco that entered the city's environmental review process after a 2020 land acquisition. That project has run into regulatory friction and neighborhood scrutiny, a reminder that city approvals can make or break large logistics plans. As The Real Deal reports, the San Francisco proposal still needs further city and community sign-offs before construction can start.
What’s next
Neither Amazon nor Prologis has laid out a public move-in timeline, and the immediate test is whether a formal business license application and any necessary permits land in time to satisfy the lease terms. If Amazon walks, Prologis will be back to marketing one of the East Bay's most power-heavy warehouses to other users. For now, city planners say they will keep working with the developer and would-be tenants as the permitting process plays out.
