Amazon plans large e-commerce facility in west Eugene industrial area

The city issued construction permits for Amazon's planned 317,640-square-foot e-commerce facility on an 84-acre parcel in west Eugene, moving the project from a land deal to buildout near Eugene Airport. The site sits in the Clear Lake Industrial Area off Highway 99, south of Awbrey Lane, and the project is a distribution or e-commerce facility with parking, fleet storage and stormwater treatment, not a data center.

The project began as an unnamed e-commerce development before a deed filed with the Lane County Clerk's Office tied the land to Amazon and showed a $2 million purchase. At a Nov. 10 Eugene City Council meeting, dozens of residents pressed the city to block the project. They raised traffic, emergency access, wetlands, pollution and congestion on Highway 99, along with doubts that a large warehouse would deliver the kind of jobs west Eugene needs. A traffic report projected the project could add more than 2,500 vehicle trips a day to Highway 99, or about a 16% increase.

The Clear Lake Industrial Area covers roughly 650 acres across 11 sites and was brought into the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary in 2018 to reserve large parcels for future industrial activity and job growth. City estimates put the expansion area alone at 3,000 jobs, while full infrastructure buildout could support 6,000. Manufacturing jobs pay 22% more than the average Oregon wage.

The Clear Lake Overlay Zone was written to preserve large development sites for light-medium industrial and campus employment uses while addressing environmental-justice concerns and avoiding conflicts with nearby residences, schools and parks. City planning materials project broader Clear Lake infrastructure construction could begin in summer 2027 and finish by summer 2029.