Amazon’s new San Marcos fulfillment center opened the week of Aug. 26 at 1401 E. McCarty Lane, San Marcos.[/caption]Amazon’s new San Marcos fulfillment center opened the week of Aug. 26 at 1401 E. McCarty Lane, San Marcos.
The center is the sixth of its kind in Texas.
The first inventory received at the center was Pop the Pig, the second best-selling children’s game in the past five years, according to a news release. The company expects to begin fulfilling customer orders by late August or early September.
Amazon has estimated it will hire about 1,000 people to work at the fulfillment center, and applications for positions are being accepted.
The company offers medical, vision and dental coverage, a 401(k) with company match and holiday pay. Employees at Amazon are also able use Career Choice, a program whereby the company pays up to 95 percent of tuition costs for courses related to in-demand fields. The areas of study do not have to relate to a career at Amazon, according to a news release.
Employees have used the program to pursue degrees related to game design, visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology.
The company announced in 2015 that it would build a new 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center in San Marcos after the city and Hays County approved an economic development agreement that will refund a portion of sales and property taxes generated on the site.
Under the terms of the incentive agreement, Amazon must employ at least 350 people at the center. In return, the city will refund to the company 85 percent of its ad valorem taxes on personal property and 40 percent of ad valorem taxes on real property for 10 years. The city will also rebate a sliding scale of sales taxes realized by the city from the project over the first 20 years of the project. Sales on online goods are not currently taxed by the entity from which those sales are generated.
At the time of the announcement, San Marcos Mayor Daniel Guerrero praised the company’s decision to locate in the city.
“The city of San Marcos is pleased to welcome global e-commerce giant Amazon to our community,” Guerrero said in a news release after the announcement was made. “Amazon's decision to choose San Marcos highlights the city as a great place to do business. This new facility, and the new jobs it will add, fits well into the city's goal of embracing economic opportunities that develop a stronger middle class and grow our local economy—a major focus of our comprehensive plan.”
Those interested in employment opportunities with the company can learn more here.
