The walls are starting to rise at Amazon.com Inc.’s new $150.7 million, 1.6 million-square-foot distribution facility at 18007 E. Garland, in Spokane Valley.

Though Amazon was long suspected, the e-commerce giant confirmed in February that it’s behind the plans for the facility, code named Project Fireball. The facility will be a “nonsort” fulfillment center for the company. Nonsort fulfillment centers specialize in bulk and larger products, such as furniture, bulk paper goods, and sporting goods.

In addition to the fulfillment center, the project includes two guard houses, a hydrogen fuel cell charging system with an 18,000-gallon liquid hydrogen tank, and a 200,000-gallon water tank for a fire pump house.

As part of the development agreement, a portion of Garland Avenue that ran through the development site has been vacated and will be rebuilt outside of the development area.

Work on the facility is expected to be completed this year.

Chicago-based Clayco Corp. is the contractor on the project; Portland-based architecture company Mackenzie designed it.

Amazon expects to employ about 1,000 employees at the new location, according to a press release the company issued in mid-February.

Site plans show the facility will have 1,000 parking stalls and 401 trailer stalls.

Plans filed with the city of Spokane Valley show the main color of the façade of the building will be the company’s licensed “Prime Blue,” which will match the exterior of the company’s 2.6 million-square-foot fulfillment center at 10010 W. Geiger Blvd., on the West Plains.

The new project site is on a 70-acre parcel of land owned by Centennial Properties Inc., east of North Flora Road and just south of East Trent Avenue. It’s directly north of the Wagstaff Inc. plant, in the industrial area near the new Cowles Publishing Co. printing facility and the Katerra Inc. cross-laminated timber factory.

This marks Amazon’s second such facility in the Spokane area. Its first, located at 10010 W. Geiger Blvd. on the West Plains, is a 2.6 million-square-foot fulfillment center that boasted a $181 million construction value and opened in mid-2020. That facility employs more than 2,000 individuals.