The Gaithersburg City Council on Monday questioned a developer’s intent to use his property for a single purpose — a distribution center for Amazon.
Frederick-based Matan Companies bought the former Leidos campus at 700 N. Frederick Ave. in early 2019. Initially, the plan was to develop the site into a mixed-use property. But Amazon later approached Matan with the idea of building a $92 million distribution center that would create up to 850 jobs.
Neither Amazon nor Matan has publicly acknowledged Amazon’s interest in the property. But a site plan and overview has multiple references to a project there for Amazon, as well as the company’s logo on a building proposed there.
Matan submitted a sketch plan, the first step in the development process, in August 2019. It specified that the property would contain multiple buildings for multiple uses.
But this year, Matan submitted a new sketch plan that states “the redevelopment of the property may contain one or more uses.”
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