Amazon.com Services LLC, formerly Amazon Fulfillment Services Inc., last month purchased a little over 13 acres in the southeast corner of the intersection of FM 511/FM 550/Interstate-169 and Paredes Line Road in Brownsville, according to the Cameron County Clerk’s office.

The seller was Heduma Construction LLC. Amazon.com Services, a subsidiary of Seattle-based Amazon.com, handles warehousing, packaging, delivery and other services for vendors selling through the Seattle-based e-commerce giant.

No official announcement has been made by the company or city or county officials, though former Brownsville mayor Trey Mendez posted on social media on Thursday that Amazon had bought the property with the intention of building a distribution center, noting that the transaction had become public

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