UPS building $90m parcel hub outside Denver

The facility, located in an industrial business park in Aurora, is expected to partially begin operations later this year, in time for the holiday shipping season, UPS said in a statement.    UPS is opening a new, nearly 360,000-square-foot package distribution facility in Aurora, Colo. that’s expected to create over 700 new jobs when fully operational, the company revealed Oct. 31.
   The facility, located in an industrial business park along the Interstate 70 corridor east of Denver, is expected to partially begin operations later this year, in time for the holiday shipping season, UPS said.
   The Aurora package operations hub will feature, UPS has said, advanced package scanning and sortation equipment that increases the flexibility to efficiently route packages through the shipping company’s network.
   “Customers will benefit from enhanced speed and accuracy as UPS meets daily volume fluctuations because of seasonal sales and weather events,” the company said in a statement.
   The $90 million Aurora project joins a multi-year investment plan to expand and modernize UPS’ global logistics network. Over the past year-and-a-half, UPS has announced plans to construct nine new US facilities that would add more than 6.2 million square feet of facility space for increasing package processing capacity.
   “The Aurora facility is part of the strategic investments UPS is making to better service our customers and enhance its efficiency and processing capability,” UPS Desert Mountain district President Kenneth Cherry said. The district includes Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
   The new operations technology is also expected to help power the rollout of UPS’ Saturday ground delivery and pickup service that began this past April. The Metro Denver area, which includes Aurora, has been an early market for the new service because of increasing retail fulfillment demands and residential delivery growth.
   Currently, UPS says, over 5,400 employees in Colorado provide package delivery, ground freight, healthcare logistics, freight forwarding and contract logistics services. In 2016, the UPS Freight facility in Denver was expanded to enhance service for customers in the local market.