{"id":110,"date":"2011-07-08T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2012-12-03T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T09:21:08","slug":"amazon-warehousing-space-in-staffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/news\/amazon-warehousing-space-in-staffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Snaps Up Warehousing Space in Staffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recent takeover of a huge warehouse space in Rugeley by online retail juggernaut Amazon has been welcomed by the local community, who expect it to lead to the creation of 700 new jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The 700,000 square foot warehouse, near the Staffordshire town&#8217;s power station, has been unoccupied for some time, but it is believed that the recent acquisition by Amazon of the building will lead to a new lease of life for the warehousing space.<\/p>\n<p>The Flair building is set on a 40-acre site and the local paper revealed that is \u201cthe largest remaining speculatively built industrial shed in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, which is growing by 20 per cent every year, is keeping the terms of the deal under wraps, but locals believe that the company has signed a 15-year lease on the warehouse, paying some \u00a34 per square foot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent takeover of a huge warehouse space in Rugeley by online retail juggernaut Amazon has been welcomed by the local community, who&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,7],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-warehouse","tag-warehousing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.whichwarehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}