The facility is along First Avenue South near 42nd Street in the Decker Development Park.

Astra Ferris, chief executive officer of the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance, described the Amazon project as another example of the good things that happen when there is collaboration between government and the private sector.

“There’s no better time than now for investment in our community,” she said. “With our workforce, it just makes sense for private investment.”

A last-mile delivery station is the final touchpoint in Amazon’s logistical system. It is the place where packages are sorted and loaded into vans for delivery to customers.

“The packages come in overnight while you’re sleeping; they’re unloaded, scanned, sorted, and placed with care into totes and carts,” Scott Seroka, a spokesman for Amazon, wrote in an email to The Messenger when the project was announced in July 2025. “The packages are only in the facility for a few brief hours.”

He wrote that the Fort Dodge facility is “part of a greater investment to help us fill gaps in our delivery system network.”

In an article on the Amazon website, Udit Madan, the company’s senior vice president for worldwide operations, wrote that delivery stations employ an average of 170 people.

Amazon will be the newest occupant of the Decker Development Park, which is along First Avenue South between Fort Frenzy and 42nd Street. MidAmerican Energy was the first occupant. Moeller Furnace & Air and FORCE America are building new facilities there as well.

The streets and other infrastructure for the development park were completed in 2016. The MidAmerican Energy service center opened in early 2019.