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The Calgary area will soon become home to Amazon — not as the base for the U.S. company’s second corporate headquarters, but hosting a massive new distribution centre for the e-commerce giant.

The Seattle-based firm announced Thursday it will open up a “fulfilment centre” in the Calgary area, creating 750 full-time positions.

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A 600,000-square-foot facility will be built outside city limits in Balzac’s Nose Creek Business Park, where the company will pack and ship orders received from online customers.

“We are excited to continue our growth in Canada and especially in the greater Calgary community, where we’ve already received great community support,” Glenn Sommerville, director of Amazon’s Canadian operations, said in a statement.

Construction on the new centre, creating 150 jobs in the process, is expected to be done next fall.

Amazon has more than 4,000 full-time employees in the country, but does not have any major operations in Alberta.

It runs six distribution centres across Canada, with four located in the Greater Toronto Area and two in the Vancouver area. It also has corporate offices in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.

The new Alberta facility will be located in Rocky View County, which has become a growing focal point for corporate logistics and product distribution in Western Canada. It has attracted companies like Walmart, which opened a $115-million food distribution warehouse in the area in 2010.