Tesla has secured a massive new building in Illinois

Tesla has secured a long-term lease on an enormous new constructing positioned in Pontoon Seaside, Illinois, close to St. Louis.

It’s not clear what the constructing might be used for, however it’s probably going to be a large components distribution middle.

Tesla likes large buildings, and it has constructed a lot of them from Gigafactory Nevada to Gigafactory Texas, that are a few of the largest buildings on the planet.

In keeping with an area report from the Courier-Tribune, Tesla is taking up a big warehouse overlaying over half 1,000,000 sq. toes:

The corporate signed a lease for practically 667,000 sq. toes of house at Gateway TradePort, a deliberate industrial park in Pontoon Seaside, Illinois, in accordance with a market report from industrial actual property agency CBRE.

The scale of the constructing would point out that it’s too large to only be one other Tesla service middle, particularly contemplating Tesla is presently constructing a big new service middle in St. Louis.

The report couldn’t pinpoint what Tesla deliberate to do on the location:

Neither the corporate nor the developer, NorthPoint Growth of Kansas Metropolis, instantly responded to a request for remark. Tesla’s web site additionally didn’t listing any jobs obtainable in Southern Illinois.

Whereas there have been no job listings for the placement on the time of publication, Tesla has since added a number of job listings for Pontoon Seaside associated to stock:

Within the job listings, Tesla references a “extremely dynamic components distribution middle”:

Tesla is searching for a motivated and skilled Supervisor for our extremely dynamic components distribution middle in Saint Louis, MO. This place will present supervision of day-to-day operations together with receiving, stocking, transport and all transactions associated to stated actions. The Supervisor, Components & Service Warehouse, will even guarantee effectivity and accuracy of stocking and organizing components stock. This particular person will work intently with the Components & Service Consumers, Logistics and High quality groups, in addition to with inner and exterior prospects across the globe. This position will report on to the Affiliate Supervisor, Components & Service Warehouse. We presently have openings for each day shift and swing shift, however flexibility is required.

It seems like the brand new location goes to be a large new components distribution middle for Tesla’s service division.

Just lately, we reported on Tesla placing a variety of effort into “revolutionizing” its automobile service and lowering wait instances for restore in North America.

Components stock is definitely a essential a part of making that occur since service facilities usually have to attend for components earlier than finishing repairs.

If Tesla can have a big components distribution middle proper in the course of the nation, like close to St. Louis, it may assist get components to service facilities all throughout North America quite a bit sooner.

The large new constructing that Tesla secured remains to be beneath building, and due to this fact, it’s not precisely clear when Tesla can full the brand new components distribution middle, however it must be comparatively quickly if it’s already hiring for it.

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