There wasn’t much activity at a large parcel of land on South Halsted Street, hugging the Chicago River’s South Branch, when Ald. Nicole Lee (11th) took office three years ago.

Now, there’s tens of thousands of packages moving through Amazon’s newest delivery station in Bridgeport, where trucks take parcels as far south as Blue Island.

It’s “something to really celebrate,” Lee said Friday, during a ribbon cutting for the 165,000-square-foot facility at 2424 S. Halsted St.

“It’s wonderful to see that things have progressed to finally open this site,” Lee said. “I’m always pleased to be able to come and join a new business opening, and Amazon, being the brand that [it] is, being in our community, I think is a wonderful thing.”

The site is an Amazon Last Mile facility, meaning it’s the fi

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