Amazon buys 50 acres in Roanoke, Va., from Bend’s Deschutes Brewery

ROANOKE, Va. (KTVZ) -- The e-commerce giant Amazon has bought a 50-acre piece of land in the Roanoke Centre for Industry and Technology from Bend, Oregon-based Deschutes Brewery, the city of Roanoke announced this month.

Amazon plans to build a 125,000-square-foot “last mile” distribution center there to handle customer orders, Cardinal News reported. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Deschutes bought the land a in 2018 for $3.2 million, with plans to build a large East Coast facility there, but the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors brought those plans to a halt, and it also closed a tasting room in downtown Roanoke.