HARRISBURG (TNS) — UPS is building its fourth largest hub facility in the country outside of Middletown in Dauphin County.
A UPS official confirmed this week that the brand-new distribution center will be open in June.
“The 775,000-square-foot distribution facility features the latest sorting, processing, and data capture technology,” Tom Farrell, a UPS spokesperson said in an e-mail.
About 750 people are expected to work at that facility.
UPS spokesperson Kim Krebs previously told PennLive that the site in Lower Swatara Township was chosen as the site of the “super hub” because of its proximity to major highways and accessibility to the northeastern United States. Packages will be shipped in from around the country, sorted in Harrisburg, loaded onto trucks and shipped out quickly, according to Krebs.
“Super hubs are really focused on sortation and moving the packages that are going out of the region,” she said.
The facility is one of four locations in the state the UPS is either building or expanding. UPS is also expanding locations in the Lehigh Valley, Dickinson Township in Cumberland County and Philadelphia.
UPS received $2.7 million in Job Creation Tax Credits, $5.6 million in Infrastructure and Facilities Improvement Program funding, and $659,400 in grants for workforce training and development to build or expand at the four locations, Gov. Tom Wolf announced last year.
According to the governor’s office, the facility is part of a $1.4 billion investment by UPS into Pennsylvania. The investment will create 1,721 new, full-time jobs and retain another 6,458 full-time jobs which pay living wages that average $52,721 annually, according to a state news release.
Farrell said that the expansion project in Dickinson Township near Carlisle has been completed.