The City of Bessemer, the City of Birmingham and Jefferson County have been close collaborators on one of the largest economic development projects this year in the Birmingham region – a proposed $40.6 million FedEx Ground facility that would create 285 full- and part-time jobs within three years of the project’s completion.
FedEx Ground will build a 300,000-square-foot facility on a 46-acre site on Lakeshore Parkway, a growing logistics and distribution corridor that would place the new building next to the Dollar General Distribution Center. The site is currently owned by U.S. Steel Corp., and 94 percent of the facility will be located in Birmingham, with the remaining 6 percent – including office operations, a parking lot and an access road – in Bessemer, both of which are located in Jefferson County.