Construction Starts On FedEx Warehouse In South Windsor

Construction of a $50 million FedEx Ground distribution center in South Windsor is now underway, with completion expected by the fall of next year.

FedEx told me it is building the 222,000-square-foot facility on Sullivan Avenue to replace a smaller one on Rainbow Road in Windsor. The Windsor location, which FedEx leases, is 105,000 square feet, less than half the size of the new facility.

The new facility will contain the latest packaging technology, FedEx told me.

The South Windsor plant will employ 80, some of which will transfer from Windsor.

The new distribution center is part of a nationwide expansion by FedEx in which 11 major hubs have been added and 500 facilities have been relocated or expanded.

FedEx Ground is the small-package ground delivery unit of FedEx Corp.