>The Amazon centers are property tax-abated for 10 years, providing instead 1.5% income tax on workers via a joint economic development agreement with Marysville.
After construction, a small fraction of workers remain to be taxed, she said.
Lol, gotta love the scam. Small town politicians must get some amazing bribes.
>While under construction about a year ago, a worker at the Warren Road Amazon facility was crushed to death, Stewart said. Another fell to his death in February at the Industrial Parkway site.
And an April 17 fire at the Industrial Parkway center tied up firefighters for more than 30 hours, causing $50 million in damage, Stewart said.
During each call, Stewart said, Amazon officials have not been helpful.
"They wanted to do background checks on all my firefighters; I wouldn't let them," he said. "And we've struggled to gain access to emergencies. They'll stop us at the gate, and our medic units have been delayed. They're denying us access to patients.
You immediately arrest have any employee interfering with emergency response and throw them in jail. Repeat until Amazon runs out of employees dumb enough to continue doing so.
First off I do think being a NIMBY about amazon and data centers is fair game, I wouldn't want those either. But I've been to Columbus, and as far as the metro area goes, this is not the highest and best use place.
There's a lot of land in neighborhoods nearer to downtown actually being redeveloped for higher tax value with residential, offices, shopping, and nightlife or that's primed once developers make their way through Old Town East and Franklinton. Even the land being redeveloped in the new fake-downtowns of suburban developments are more around Dublin and mostly within the bounds of 270.
I'm familiar with site in question and not surprised. The location of the first campus built in Hilliard is extremely problematic, but more due to traffic patterns than anything else. The entrance is along a road that gets busy and trucks going into and out of the campus have been known to cause backups while they wait to get access through the security gates. They alienated a lot of the local residents from that alone.
As for the safety record, I think it's fair to say that the issues are largely due to AWS leadership in the central Ohio region not taking safety seriously and internal politics where leaders tend to be more concerned with their own self-interest, avoiding a PIP, managing perception, and advancing their careers.
There's a lot of talk about prioritizing safety but there's a distinct lack of ownership from the senior leaders. The relationships between Safety, Security and Operations are more adversarial than collaborative but it's easy to simply ignore the problem and/or push the blame to others while nothing gets solved. I have plenty of anecdotes I could share but it would just be airing dirty laundry and ultimately not productive.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 33.7 ms ] threadDispatch.com link: not sure why the link I added (or thought I added) wasn't to the Dispatch article: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/09/08/ohio-to...
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Lol, gotta love the scam. Small town politicians must get some amazing bribes.
>While under construction about a year ago, a worker at the Warren Road Amazon facility was crushed to death, Stewart said. Another fell to his death in February at the Industrial Parkway site. And an April 17 fire at the Industrial Parkway center tied up firefighters for more than 30 hours, causing $50 million in damage, Stewart said. During each call, Stewart said, Amazon officials have not been helpful. "They wanted to do background checks on all my firefighters; I wouldn't let them," he said. "And we've struggled to gain access to emergencies. They'll stop us at the gate, and our medic units have been delayed. They're denying us access to patients.
You immediately arrest have any employee interfering with emergency response and throw them in jail. Repeat until Amazon runs out of employees dumb enough to continue doing so.
I would legitimately have driven my car through that building if I lived here.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/09/08/ohio-to...
As for the safety record, I think it's fair to say that the issues are largely due to AWS leadership in the central Ohio region not taking safety seriously and internal politics where leaders tend to be more concerned with their own self-interest, avoiding a PIP, managing perception, and advancing their careers.
There's a lot of talk about prioritizing safety but there's a distinct lack of ownership from the senior leaders. The relationships between Safety, Security and Operations are more adversarial than collaborative but it's easy to simply ignore the problem and/or push the blame to others while nothing gets solved. I have plenty of anecdotes I could share but it would just be airing dirty laundry and ultimately not productive.