Orange County IDA briefs committee on Amazon proposal, hotels, Indigo well study and brownfields grant

Bill Fiobante, chief executive officer of the Orange County Industrial Development Agency, briefed the county—s Education and Economic Development Committee May 19 on a portfolio of IDA efforts including a large Amazon fulfillment-center application, multiple hotel proposals, a proposed Indigo wells water study and an EPA Brownfields grant the IDA won to assess contaminated properties.

Fiobante described what he called "the mega project that everyone's talking about," an Amazon fulfillment center the IDA said would be roughly 3,200,000 square feet with a reported $607,000,000 capital investment, at least 750 jobs and about 300 construction jobs. The applicant is seeking a sales-tax exemption and a 20-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) arrangement; Fiobante said the project would be eligible for a 20-year PILOT under the IDA's uniform tax-exemption policy levels…