Amazon Web Services locks down massive Buckeye warehouse
Amazon recently signed a 1.2 million-square-foot industrial lease in Buckeye.
It was the largest lease in the Valley in the first quarter, according to a report from Colliers, which named Amazon Web Services – the company’s cloud-based computing platform – as the tenant.
The facility, which is called Southern Industrial Center, is located a 24105 W. Southern Avenue. It was developed by Parklane Development Group and Miramar Industrial Partners and completed in 2023.
Cushman and Wakefield’s Mike Haenel, Phil Haenel, Andy Markham, Foster Bundy represented the landlord, while CBRE’s Patrick Feeney, Danny Calihan, and Tyler Vowels represented the tenant, according to a LinkedIn post.
An application was filed April 20 for a permit at Southern Industrial Center for “installation of storage racking including high-pile for Amazon per approved plans,” according to city of Buckeye records.
An Amazon representative did not provide comment on the lease by publication time.
The retail giant signed on for another massive Valley space in January – a 1,063,188-square-foot warehouse at West 202 Logistics, which is a sprawling industrial infill industrial project off the I-10 and Loop 202 interchange.
Amazon currently leases several mega warehouses that are over a million square feet across metro Phoenix. The company was Arizona’s second largest employer in 2025, with 40,000 workers across the state, according to Phoenix Business Journal research.
In the West Valley it occupies a 1.2 million square-foot space at The Cubes at Glendale Industrial Park, and another space the same size at Prologis 303 Business Park in Goodyear. It’s also leasing a 1 million square-foot buildingat Paloma Vista Logistics Center in Buckeye.
In the East Valley, Amazon has a 1.2 million square-foot storage and distribution facility in Mesa, along with other facilities.
The Buckeye facility Amazon is now leasing is near a planned industrial employment hub in the southwest part of town. The city recently approved rezoning a nearly 2,000-acre site called Grand View Buckeye to set it up for an employment district.
New zoning there now allows for a range of industrial buildings with limited heavy industrial uses. It is expected to draw manufacturing, logistics, data center and aerospace industry users. One mega user could also swoop in and develop nearly the entire Grand View site – minus 32 acres that would need to be used for commercial.
The supply of big-box warehouses in metro Phoenix – or those amounting to 500,000 square-feet or more – has dwindled over the last year.
Over the past four quarters, vacancy rates for big-box warehouses fell from 14.5% to 3.5%, according to the Colliers report.
There are no spaces of 1 million square feet or more currently available for lease in existing industrial buildings throughout the Greater Phoenix area, according to Connor Devereux, senior director of market analytics for CoStar Group/Homes.com.
However, there are two million square-footers under construction and several more proposed.