Online retail giant Amazon has made a gigantic bet — the size of 9½ Canadian Football League fields — on its B.C. logistics chain with a new warehouse in Pitt Meadows that will serve as a hub for distribution operations in the Lower Mainland.

In Amazon parlance, the 825,000-square-foot facility on Airport Way and Harris Road, is a storage and distribution fulfilment centre, which fits in at the front end of its logistics chain, receiving and holding shipments of inventory from sellers that is then moved out to one of its four customer fulfilment centres within Metro Vancouver.

Approaching the centre’s glass-fronted administration building, the warehouse looks like a blocks-long great wall that stretches out almost to the edge of a person’s view.

“Fun fact, this is almost twice the size

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