Amazon is building a second same-day delivery warehouse in the Louisville area, a 324,500-square-foot facility at 8001 Air Commerce Drive that's expected to open in the second half of 2027 and bring more than 200 new jobs to the region. The site sits near the Outer Loop close to I-65, in the Louisville Renaissance Zone not far from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.
According to WDRB, new warehouse employees at the Air Commerce Drive site will start at $23 an hour plus benefits. As WLKY reports, the investment is expected to create more than 200 jobs once the facility is up and running.
This will mark Amazon's second same-day delivery site in the Louisville area, following a sub-same-day facility that opened on Plantside Drive in late 2024 out of the Blankenbaker Station industrial park. The new warehouse will lean on mobile autonomous robots to help human workers sort and move packages, a combination the station's report says is designed to speed up fulfillment while easing the physical strain on staff.
Groceries and Prescriptions Join the Mix
The Air Commerce Drive facility won't just handle general merchandise. It's set to manage same-day deliveries of perishable groceries and Amazon Pharmacy prescriptions, building on a same-day grocery and pharmacy rollout the company launched across a 55-mile radius around Louisville in February 2026, per the same account. That expansion followed Amazon's decision to permanently close its physical Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores nationwide, shifting capital instead toward centralized same-day delivery networks that cover everyday items, perishables and medications alike.
Amazon first introduced same-day delivery for Prime members back in 2015, and the service now supports one-hour and three-hour delivery windows in more than 9,000 U.S. cities and towns, according to WLKY. Prime members can get free same-day delivery on qualifying purchases, a perk the company has steadily widened as it competes with rivals for speed.
Why Louisville Keeps Landing These Warehouses
The Air Commerce Drive corridor sits within a 10-minute drive of both the airport and UPS Worldport, with direct access to I-65 and I-265 that reaches roughly two-thirds of the U.S. population within a single day's drive, according to Transwestern Investment Group. The Airport submarket has strong demand — Amazon's existing Plantside Drive site sits inside the 390,000-square-foot Blankenbaker Station portfolio that investment firm EQT Real Estate bought for $55.8 million in January 2026, per Traded CRE.
The second Louisville hub also fits into a much larger national push. Amazon said it is investing $4 billion to triple its rural and small-town delivery network, extending same-day and next-day options to more than 4,000 smaller communities by the end of 2025. Newsweek reported in May 2026 that the company is also expanding “Amazon Now,” a 30-minute-or-less delivery option for everyday essentials in major metro markets, as it fends off quick-commerce rivals like Instacart and DoorDash.
A Pattern Playing Out Beyond Kentucky
Louisville's build-out echoes moves Amazon has made elsewhere this year. Hoodline previously reported on the company's first Mid-South same-day site targeted for a 2027 opening and on a robotics-equipped hub that landed nearly 300 jobs in Findlay. 167 jobs were recently cut at two North Texas Amazon hubs.
Questions remain about how the buildup will ripple through the region. It's unclear how the growth of independent Amazon Flex gig drivers might affect local traffic around the Airport submarket, or how regional brick-and-mortar grocers will respond as Amazon extends its one-to-three-hour delivery coverage across the 55-mile Louisville radius.
