
Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 20,000 jobs in Indiana and invested more than $11.9 billion across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to its employees. “Offering livable wages through employment opportunities such as this one will position individuals and families in Fort Wayne to be successful.” I also appreciate and value the approvals the project received from the Fort Wayne Plan Commission and Fort Wayne City Council,” said Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry. We wouldn’t be where we are today with this significant investment without a strong partnership with Amazon and leadership from the City of Fort Wayne’s Community Development Division and the Fort Wayne Redevelopment Commission. “Amazon choosing Fort Wayne for the location of their new fulfillment center is a sign of continued progress and momentum in our City.

Since the program’s launch, more than 40,000 employees have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few. Featured News Survey: You need 95,000 a year to be happy in Indiana City: Fee waived for tree debris at Biosolids Facility One underage girl arrested, one. In this program, the company will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. This facility will serve countless customers across the country, further cementing Indiana’s position as one of top states for doing business.”Īll associates will go through hours of safety training and have access to continuing education opportunities through Amazon’s upskilling programs such as Career Choice, Amazon officials said. “This is great news from a global company that continues to recognize Indiana as a top destination for job creation and investment. “Amazon is employing thousands of Hoosiers and expanding growth opportunities for the city of Fort Wayne,” said Interim Indiana Secretary of Commerce Jim Staton. Indiana has been a source of exceptional talent for Amazon and we’re excited to continue our growth by adding additional job opportunities on top of the 20,000 current Amazon employees working across the Hoosier state.” “Since 2010, Amazon has invested over $11.9 billion in the state through its local fulfillment center and cloud infrastructure, research facilities, and compensation to thousands of employees in the state. “We are proud to be bringing our newest Amazon Robotics facility to the city of Fort Wayne along with over 1,000 new, full-time jobs that provide great pay, benefits, and a safe work environment for our employees,” said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon’s vice president of global customer fulfillment. The company currently has fulfillment and sortation centers in Greenfield, Greenwood, Indianapolis, Jeffersonville, Plainfield, and Whitestown. The Fort Wayne facility will be Amazon’s first fulfillment center in Indiana to use innovative and advanced robotics technology and the company’s 10th fulfillment center in the Hoosier State. The new 630,000 square foot site, anticipated to open in 2022, will create nearly 1,000 full-time jobs.

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Police had asked the public for help finding Hancz-Barron, saying he was “armed and extremely dangerous” and possibly driving a stolen pickup truck. Webb said friends and family identified Hancz-Barron as a suspect in the killings, which police believe occurred between 5 a.m. Webb said Hancz-Barron had been wanted on an arrest warrant issued in April stemming from a probation violation in northwestern Indiana’s Starke County. That will be reviewed by the prosecutor’s office and they will file charges as they see fit,” he said Thursday morning. “Our detectives are still finishing up and putting the case together. Jeremy Webb said Hancz-Barron faces four preliminary murder counts, pending a formal charging decision by the Allen County Prosecutor’s office. He was moved late Wednesday to the Allen County Jail in Fort Wayne.įort Wayne Police spokesman Sgt. The man accused of killing the four, Cohen Hancz-Barron, 21, was being held without bond following his arrest Wednesday afternoon at an apartment complex in Lafayette more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the scene of the killings.
