FedEx expands in Commerce City
FedEx Freight Corp. will break ground in Commerce City Tuesday on a new service center.
The Memphis company is building a 170,000-square-foot facility that will have 241 doors. FedEx Freight is relocating from its current service center at 5601 Holly St., also in Commerce Center. The current service center has 152 doors and measures 46,000 square feet.
The new facility will be the second-largest service center in the country. The largest, with 277 doors, is in Denver.
FedEx Freight is the less-than-truckload subsidiary of FedEx Corp.
The service center will be in Marty Farms Industrial Park at 96th Avenue. The current service center is at 5601 Holly St.
FedEx Freight accounted for USD 1 billion of FedEx Corp.’s USD 8.5 billion in revenue during the quarter ended Aug. 31, and USD 150 million of its USD 784 million in income.
Groundbreaking takes place at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17. Participants will include Commerce City Mayor Sean Ford; Dennis Beal, vice president, physical assets, FedEx Freight; Adams County commissioners Alice Nichol, W.R. Fischer and Larry Pace; and guests, customers and employees.
The new service center is expected to open in November 2007.
