TROY — The developer seeking to build a $100 million Amazon distribution center on Route 9 in Schodack is seeking $13.7 million in state and local tax breaks.

However, a new study done for Scannell Properties, the Indianapolis firm that would build and own the 1 million-square-foot facility, found that over the next 20 years the project would provide a net tax benefit of $31 million to the town and the East Greenbush Central School District.

And that doesn't include the $24.5 million in annual wages that would be generated by the 800-plus jobs Amazon would create.

The Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency, which is facilitating the incentive package for Scannell, is holding a public hearing on the proposed tax breaks Thursday morning at 10 a.m. at Schodack Town Hall, 265 Schuurman Road.

The application Scannell filed with the Rensselaer County IDA provides a glimpse into how Amazon operates its national network of "fulfillment centers," where customer orders are packaged and shipped to homes.

Scannell, which holds an option to buy the two parcels of vacant land on Route 9 that will make up the 116-acre site, will build and own the facility, with Amazon leasing it for 15 years with an option to renew.

Scannell says in its application it would spend $75 million on the building, a sum that would cover elements such as real estate acquisition and design costs. Amazon would spend $20 million on the high-tech robotics and machinery inside that assist workers with packing and shipping orders.

Amazon has not responded to multiple requests to comment on the project, although Eric Murray, a senior economic development manager with the company, spoke at a public hearing held by the town's planning board last month.

"If the project does go forward, Amazon is very careful to work with the community partners to identify things that are important to the community, things that are important to Amazon," said Murray — a Union College graduate — during the June 18 hearing.

Murray said the Schodack facility would handle large household items such as TVs, appliances, canoes and kayaks. Plans show that trucks leaving the facility would travel south on Route 9 toward Exit 12 on I-90.

Scannell's application says the total cost of the project would be $97 million. The largest portion of the incentive package being requested through the IDA is $9.9 million in local property tax breaks.

The IDA had previously said it planned to offer Scannell a structured tax arrangement with local municipalities that would set the facility's property tax assessment at $55 million and provide the developer a 50 percent cut on its tax bill over the first 10 years.

Scannell commissioned an economic impact study by Camoin Associates, a well-regarded Saratoga Springs consulting firm. The study found that in addition to the 800 jobs that Amazon would create inside the fulfillment center, another 49 permanent jobs with $2.4 million in annual payroll would be created within the town as new service and retail businesses opened to serve the Amazon facility and its workers.

That would be on top of the $22 million in annual payroll for the Amazon workers, who get health care and other benefits if they hold full-time positions. A typical wage within an Amazon fulfillment center is about $13 an hour, or about $27,000 a year.

Those full-time positions "would have full benefits on day one," Amazon's Murray said at the June hearing. "They're egalitarian benefits — the same benefits that everyone throughout the company receives as a full-time employee. That's medical, dental, vision, 401k, access to generous maternity leave."

The Camoin study found that the Amazon's property tax bill under the arrangement with the IDA would be about $1 million annually for the first 10 years of the arrangement. But then after that it would jump to about $2.5 million and rise to about $3 million annually by 2028. The East Greenbush school district would receive the bulk of that tax money.

The $31 million in net fiscal impact calculated in the Camoin study is the difference between that added tax revenue and any added municipal and school costs incurred as a result of the Amazon project.

Amazon wants to have the facility built by either the third quarter of 2019 or the third quarter of 2020 by the latest.

The Camoin study said it would expect the Amazon project to sustain 83 construction and related jobs during the building phase, with $18 million of the construction costs sourced locally.

Construction worker payroll would total $7.3 million during that period as well.

The planning board has signed off on the project, although the town board has to approve an extension of the town's water and sewer lines to reach the proposed Amazon site.

A group of homeowners that live next to the Route 9 site have urged the town to do a more in-depth environmental impact study of the project, but the planning board decided against that when it voted to move the project forward on July 2.

The group, known as the Birchwood Association and representing about 50 homes, has said more study needs to be done because of the size of the project and the amount of traffic it will generate. The facility will have more than 1,000 parking spaces.