UKIAH, CA., 6/19/25 – Amazon is eyeing Ukiah as a possible location for a new delivery center, the North Bay Business Journal reported earlier this month.
Amazon is looking to expand its rural delivery reach by investing $4 billion across the country to speed up local delivery times.
The company claims building a rural delivery center can increase delivery speeds by 50% to the surrounding area.
According to the NBBJ, Amazon has been looking at a 56,280-square-foot warehouse in the Friends of Liberty Industrial Park in an unincorporated area just north of the city.
The industrial park is owned by Ross Liberty of Ukiah. Liberty owns Factory Pipe and is an active member of a community group opposing the city of Ukiah’s proposed annexation of 9,000 acres of adjacent land.
Liberty’s industrial park sits on land that will be annexed if the city’s proposal succeeds.
Mendocino County Planning & Building Services Director Julia Krog told the NBBJ that Amazon has not submitted any paperwork signaling interest in becoming a tenant.
Liberty declined to comment, and Amazon told NBBJ that “nothing is finalized.”
Your map sticker is wrong. The office park is not in Redwood Valley. It’s a few miles south of Redwood Valley next to Ukiah.
Thank you for pointing that out Mike. I updated it! Really appreciate your keen eye and thanks for reading The Mendocino Voice!
About time! Ukiah needs this & more high-quality restaurants! I can’t figure out since I moved up here from Moutain View 8 yrs ago why there are ZERO authentic Mexican restaurants or Chinese restaurants, etc!
This explains Liberty’s passionate anti-annexation position. Ukiah business license costs are on a sliding scale to gross receipts vs the county’s flat rate of $40 for a business license. Gross sales from a facility like this would cost much more to maintain a business license in Ukiah than in the county.
Yeah the only reason the city is interested in annexing that area is because for the tax money. when a business looks at coming to the area and they see how the city has it set up they look outside the city limits. The city doesn’t really care about ye residents in that area. In effect this prevents any good jobs from coming to the area and we need the jobs. The city just need to keep their hands out of it. Vote no on the annexation if you live in the unincorporated area of Ukiah!