The Development Authority of Fulton County voted to provide a $16 million tax break to Amazon as the multinational tech company seeks to invest $500 million in an inactive warehouse on Campbellton Road and turn it into a robotics facility. The facility, much like the one located in Stone Mountain, will use robotics to store, package, and fulfill orders.
The investment would create 750 jobs for residents of South Fulton and is expected to generate nearly five times as much in tax receipts in a year.
Mayor Carmalitha Gumbs, South Fulton’s first female mayor, said the Amazon facility would be a “wonderful” opportunity for the city to position itself as one of the industry leaders in the region.
“Our city is still very young. We’re a nine-year-old city, and we’re still a bedroom community, so a lot of our tax base is based on our home ownership. Bringing in such a global partner will actually kind of help alleviate some of that tax burden,” Gumbs said.
“These are the types of things that we’ve been looking forward to as the city grows.”
Gumbs said that they’ll continue to show Amazon that South Fulton is a good partner and the right choice to develop the new facility.
“We’ll address any type of community relationships that we are trying to build. At this time, we are just hoping that they do decide to come to our city, but we will do our very best to make it a more inviting place so that they will have no other opportunity but to say yes to the City of South Fulton.”