Amazon opened its newest facility in Monroe County — a $75 million sortation center in Ogden — bringing the tech and logistics giant’s total local presence to four facilities.

What is a sortation center?

Sortation centers are key links in Amazon’s delivery network. Packages shipped from fulfillment centers are organized at the centers based on their final destinations before being sent to “last-mile” delivery stations. The 208,000-square-foot facility on Shepard Road currently employs 150 workers in full- and part-time roles.

Amazon’s growing footprint in the Rochester area

The new Ogden location joins three other Amazon facilities in Monroe County:

A 2.6 million-square-foot robotics fulfillment center in Gates, which opened last year and employs over 2,000 people.

Two “last-mile” de

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