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The facility, at the corner of East Orange Avenue and Meridian Street, will also provide the community with routes to new employment opportunities.

Leon County and the City of Tallahassee are giving Amazon more than $2.5 million in incentives. In return, the company is promising 1,000 new jobs. Still, questions remain over whether those new jobs will result in overall job growth, or if Amazon will pull workers from other local industries. 

Project Mango has been revealed. Amazon and Leon County made it official today, with the online retailer announcing plans for a robotics fulfillment center at Mahan Drive and I-10.