Less than three years after breaking ground on its first Missouri fulfillment center in St. Peters, Amazon is St. Charles County's largest employer.

 

When the St. Peters fulfillment center was announced in 2018, the retail giant expected to hire around 1,500 workers. Today the St. Peters location is over 6,000 employees strong and growing. Local officials point to a variety of factors behind Amazon's success in St. Charles County, including high median household incomes, liveability, and the ease of doing business in St. Peters.

 

“Critical factors such as the availability of shovel-ready sites, FasTrac development assistance from the City of St. Peters, and easy access to the regional labor shed are what drew Amazon to the area,” remarked Scott Drachnik, president and CEO of the Economic Development Council (EDC) of St. Charles County. “Amazon has been very successful in St. Peters, thanks in part to a strong base of online shoppers with one of the highest median household incomes in the state.”

 

Amazon's four-story, 855,000 square-foot facility is located in the Premier 370 business park, which is located along the Highway 370 Logistics Corridor. The park, which is also home to FedEx, Best Buy, Grove Collaborative, and others, has been a boon to the local economy, generating 8,000 jobs in the past two years.

 

“The incredible growth at Amazon is an amazing example of St. Peters being a great place to live, work and raise a family,” said St. Peters Mayor Len Pagano. “Their growing commitment to St. Peters demonstrates the value of our FasTrac process for our St. Peters’ business family. Our entire St. Peters FasTrac team is ready to help businesses, whether you’re Amazon or jBloom, ‘Speed Your Idea to Reality!’"

 

jBloom, a graduate of the EDC's small business incubator, is a major local success story, growing from a home-based business into a $9.39 million company in just five years.

 

FasTrac is an initiative launched by the City of St. Peters to accelerate development projects by providing expedited proposal review and a streamlined permitting process.