UPS to expand in Colorado with package facility in time for peak

UPS is expanding in the Denver region again, with the construction of a US$90 million package distribution facility that the company says will be operational this year, in time for the holiday shipping season.

Kenneth Cherry, president of the UPS Desert Mountain district, said that the expansion was required to meet the, “rapid expansion of both residential and commercial demand.”

The new package operations hub will feature advanced package scanning and sortation equipment that UPS said will make the facility operate more efficiently.

UPS added that its UPS Saturday ground delivery and pickup service would operate out of the facility.  The Metro Denver area, including Aurora, has been an early market for the new service because of increasing retail fulfillment demands and residential delivery growth.

As integrators’ role in retail activity grows, facilities like the new Denver one are springing up around population centers across the U.S. – with UPS employing 5,400 in the state of Colorado alone.