Amazon is building yet another massive distribution facility in Aurora, this one spanning nearly 1.2 million square feet on 58 acres near East Stephen D. Hogan Parkway and East Sixth Avenue. The project marks the ninth Amazon facility in Aurora and lands less than two miles southeast of an existing Amazon fulfillment center, placing the retail giant's footprint in this pocket of the metro even more densely together.
The new site is part of the Stafford Logistics Center, a roughly 366-acre business park slated to become a mixed-use business and technology district, according to Bisnow. The land beneath the new facility is owned by a Kansas City, Missouri-based LLC with ties to NorthPoint Development, which purchased the entire 70-acre property in 2022 for nearly $10.3 million, according to Arapahoe County documents cited in the same report. NorthPoint submitted the Stafford Logistics Center master plan to the City of Aurora in December 2025.
Amazon spokesperson Nissa LaPoint told Bisnow in an email that the new distribution center will also operate as a compressed natural gas fueling station, but she declined to comment on a construction timeline for the project. LaPoint added that Amazon has a great relationship with the City of Aurora — a partnership evident in the city's own infrastructure spending nearby. Aurora opened a $70 million diverging diamond interchange at Interstate 70 and Picadilly Road in February, a project that extended Picadilly Road between Colfax Avenue and Smith Road specifically to relieve freight and commuter bottlenecks feeding logistics hubs like Stafford, as per Hoodline.
A Deepening Footprint in Eastern Aurora
This is not Amazon's first rodeo in this particular business park. The company already operates a 1.1 million-square-foot fulfillment center known internally as DEN8 inside Building 5 of the Stafford Logistics Center at 21000 East 13th Avenue, according to FLEX Fulfillment, which reports that DEN8 runs 24/7 as a non-sort, heavy-bulky fulfillment site serving Colorado and the Mountain West. Amazon previously installed a 1-megawatt proton exchange membrane electrolyzer at DEN8 to generate on-site green hydrogen fuel for its hydrogen-powered forklift fleet, per Hydrogen Fuel News.
Statewide, Amazon now operates 11 fulfillment and sortation centers and 13 delivery stations across Colorado, per Bisnow's reporting. The company opened its first Aurora location in 2017 and, as of a June 2026 opening, paid $86 million for a warehouse also located in the city. Amazon's Colorado operations extend beyond warehousing too — the company maintains three solar farms and a pharmacy in the state, and it also purchased a 625,000-square-foot warehouse, per the same Bisnow account.
Infrastructure Built to Handle the Trucks
The new facility's location roughly 12 miles south of Denver International Airport places it squarely in what CBRE, per Bisnow, describes as the metro's Airport East submarket, where industrial activity is concentrated. A March 2026 City of Aurora traffic study recommended widening Picadilly Road north of Stephen D. Hogan Parkway to a six-lane arterial, anticipating daily traffic could reach 36,000 vehicles by 2050; initial construction along that corridor by adjacent developers could begin as early as 2027, according to the city's planning documents.
Nearby, another project called Picadilly Crossing will feature up to 513,000 square feet of industrial space and is expected to come online later in 2026, per Bisnow. QED currently occupies a 250,000-square-foot distribution center at 21001 East 13th Avenue in Aurora, within the same corridor. NorthPoint Development, the master developer behind Stafford, has delivered more than 140 million square feet of industrial space nationwide since its 2012 founding for clients including Amazon, Home Depot, Chewy, and UPS, according to marketing materials from Cushman & Wakefield.
A Booming Market, With Amazon at the Center
The Amazon project arrives amid a broader surge in Denver-area industrial construction. Projects under construction across Denver metro increased 16.4% between the first and second quarters of 2026, with 2.3 million square feet under construction and 4.2 million square feet underway overall, according to a CBRE second-quarter report cited by Bisnow. About 26% of that industrial space underway is already preleased.
Amazon's statewide scale helps explain the appetite for projects like this one. The company reported in August that it has invested more than $20 billion in Colorado since 2010 and directly employs more than 20,000 full- and part-time workers statewide, according to Amazon News. The company also estimates its investments support an additional 20,000 indirect jobs in industries like construction and logistics. Amazon says its average starting base wage for customer fulfillment and transportation workers in Colorado now exceeds $23 per hour, with full health and tuition benefits beginning on day one.
The Eastern Aurora corridor has drawn steady institutional investment beyond Amazon's own projects. Real estate investment firm CIRE Equity acquired an 876,000-square-foot distribution facility on East Colfax Avenue in Aurora for $63.5 million in January, one of Metro Denver's largest single-property industrial trades of early 2026, as Hoodline previously reported. In July, Banner Industrial Properties purchased a 406,959-square-foot warehouse at 22100 East 26th Avenue in Aurora, reflecting continued capital deployment in the airport-adjacent submarket as infrastructure projects like the Picadilly interchange near completion.
