Amazon’s Massive 500-Acre Warehouse Plan Rattles Residents in Quiet Connecticut Town
KILLINGLY, Conn. — A growing wave of unease is sweeping through this small northeastern Connecticut community as residents confront plans for a sprawling Amazon distribution center on roughly 500 acres of undeveloped land.
While the e-commerce titan is still awaiting key approvals, many locals’are already voicing deep concerns over the project’s potential transformation of .the rural surroundings’ their neighborhoods and daily lives. The proposalso, which envisions a facility parking thousands-and semi-trucks trucks just overnight.overnight-plusstaff, e runs relatively flat land from marsheed but sets open conflict <>
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