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Amazon.com is ramping up its fulfillment center presence in Virginia and Tennessee to create warehouses like this one at its Seattle headquarters.
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Amazon.com is investing more than a quarter billion dollars in its Southern strategy for goods distribution.

The dominant e-commerce company announced this morning it would spend $270 million on new facilities in Tennessee and Virginia, slated to open next fall.

Amazon plans to spend $85 million in Chesterfield County, Virginia, south of Richmond, and another $50 million in Dinwiddie County. That money will go to fulfillment centers in the two counties, creating an expected 1,350 jobs altogether.

In Tennessee, the e-tailer plans to spend $135 million on new fulfillment centers and create about 1,300 jobs.

Kent Bernhard Jr. is News Editor of Portfolio.com

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