Amazon has leased a roughly 91,000-square-foot warehouse in Everett, Washington, that it previously vacated, and the move appears tied to the company's rapidly growing satellite internet business. The building sits at 6611 Associated Boulevard, just as the company's Kirkland satellite factory has hit a notable production milestone: its 1,000th satellite built.
A Warehouse Amazon Already Knew Well
According to connectcre.com, Amazon's lease at the Everett facility expired in 2024, though the property had not been physically occupied since at least 2022; the outlet reports the company has now leased a 90,970-square-foot warehouse at the address for its Leo satellite division. The outlet describes Amazon Leo, formerly Project Kuiper, as the company's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. As CoStar News reports, permit filings point to possible use of the space by Amazon's Project Leo low-Earth-orbit program, and the company has a facility near an existing logistics center that supports the effort.
Not every outlet frames the move the same way. bizjournals.com reports simply that Amazon has signed a lease to fill a vacant warehouse that it will likely put to a new use, a more cautious read than the direct satellite-division link cited elsewhere. The exact business activities planned for 6611 Associated Boulevard have not been independently confirmed beyond those accounts.
Puget Sound's Growing Satellite Footprint
The Everett lease lands amid a broader buildout of Amazon's satellite infrastructure around Puget Sound. Amazon Leo is opening a new receiving and logistics facility in Everett to manage third-party materials for its nearby satellite manufacturing operation in Kirkland, according to a release from Amazon. That dedicated 172,000-square-foot Kirkland facility is designed to build up to five satellites per day at peak capacity, and more than 2,000 Amazon employees in the Puget Sound region currently work on the Leo program, the company says.
Separately, connectcre.com notes a 167,000-square-foot logistics hub nearby that supports Amazon's orbital satellite division, which was repurposed from a former delivery station — illustrating how the company has been stitching together industrial space across the region to keep pace with satellite output.
Production Milestone Adds Urgency
The timing coincides with word that Amazon recently manufactured its 1,000th satellite at the Kirkland factory, as arstechnica.com reports. Per CoStar News, the company has manufactured 1,000 satellites for its low-Earth-orbit network out of the Seattle area. Ars Technica reports that about 400 satellites are in orbit and describes a launch from Florida. An Amazon executive told Ars Technica the company's production speed has transformed dramatically: “It took us six months to make our first 27 satellites. Now we can easily make 27 a week.” The same report notes that manufacturing and testing a satellite still takes several weeks, even at that faster pace.
Amazon's ambitions extend well beyond the Seattle area. The company says it has secured more than 80 launches to deploy its initial satellite constellation, part of a plan to eventually deploy the full 3,232-satellite Leo network, according to Amazon. Project Kuiper was renamed Amazon Leo, the company has said.
Florida Facility Shows the Scale of the Bet
Amazon's satellite buildout isn't confined to Washington state. In Florida, the company has built a 100,000-square-foot payload processing facility at Kennedy Space Center that, at full capacity, will be able to process more than 100 satellites per month, Amazon says.
Back in Everett, Amazon is once again filling space it once left behind, at a moment when its satellite ambitions are accelerating fast enough to require it.
