WILMINGTON, MA — The e-commerce megapower Amazon is dramatically expanding its presence in Wilmington.
According to the town’s Planning and Conservation Director Valerie Gingrich, Amazon Robotics is primed to lease the long vacant warehouse at 175 Lowell Street.
The defense company Textron sold 35 acres of its 60-acre Lowell Street property in 2021 to National Development. National Development used the land to construct a nearly 300,000 sq. ft. warehouse and logistics space in 2023. National Development sold the building to TPG Real Estate for $90 million in 2024. The building has never had a tenant, until now.
Amazon recently received a special permit from Wilmington’s Zoning Board of Appeals to conduct Research & Development in the warehouse. Amazon also received a site plan waiver from the Wilmington Planning Board to install HVAC systems in the warehouse’s loading dock, instead of on top of the building.
“They haven’t signed the lease quite yet,” Gingrich told the Economic Development Committee back on June 16, 2026. “The percentage of the building they might take keeps getting larger and larger. They might take the whole thing.”
When asked to clarify the “Research and Development” use, Gingrich explained Amazon will be focused on robotics and protype manufacturing at this site.
According to the Town’s Zoning Bylaws, “Research and Developmet” is defined as “establishments devoted to investigation, experimentation, and testing activities related to the fields of electronics, engineering, geology, physics, or other scientific area.”
The building includes 55 loading docks, parking for 105 trailers, and space for 230 vehicles.
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