Online retail juggernaut Amazon looks to be ordering up the city-owned former Rolling Acres Mall site on Romig Road in Akron for another large distribution center, its fourth, in Northeast Ohio.

City officials have stayed mum publicly as to the developer's identity — beyond the cryptic, Delaware-based Akron Romig Road LLC — as Akron City Council in July adopted legislation for the project. Council members authorized the use of tax increment financing to fund public improvements associated with a 600,000-square-foot warehouse on the site. The measure also authorized the sale of the site to the firm.

However, a close look at Ohio public records and past Amazon projects in other areas tag the Seattle-based e-commerce giant as the user and an Amazon affiliate as the builder of the property.

On July 17, the day after Akron City Council OK'd the legislation, a new limited liability corporation was recorded in the Ohio Secretary of State's office for a Buckeye firm dubbed Akron Romig Road LLC. The LLC said it was formed on behalf of CF Hippolyta LLC and Constantine Dakolias at an Avenue of Americas address in New York City.

Hippolyta, in classical Greek mythology, was the queen of the Amazons, a society of women warriors. The name was linked to the Amazon company in Charlotte, N.C., by city officials as the city council there in June approved the sale of city-owned land to CF Hippolyta Charlotte LLC for a massive fulfillment center that will create thousands of jobs.

Online records of the Delaware Secretary of State's office not only show an LLC for CF Hippolyta LLC but another CF Hippolyta Akron LLC. Variations of the name also signify proposed or completed Amazon properties in Bessemer, Ala.; Bakersfield, Calif.; and Spokane, Wash.

Constantine Dakolias is the co-chief investment officer of the Credit Funds unit of Fortress Investment Group, a hedge fund with offices at the same Avenue of Americas address as CF Hippolyta LLC.

Fortress has more than $40 billion of investment funds under management, according to its website, with holdings in corporate credit, infrastructure, real estate and multiple other areas.

Local and state government officials are loathe to identify Amazon by name as a prospective business in their localities. That is because the online behemoth is said to demand secrecy when deals are gestating.

It's an almost routine script now following prior deals in the region, although it played out on different stages. Amazon became a tenant at Cornerstone Business Park in Twinsburg two years ago and is having a warehouse built for it at the site of the former Euclid Square Mall in Euclid. Amazon is the user of the soon-to-open fulfillment center on grounds formerly occupied by Randall Park Mall in North Randall. Amazon and its vendor developer and contractors conducted a tour of the Randall property Wednesday, Aug. 15, where it said the company is hiring about 2,000 workers for an operation in a 2-million-square-foot building.

In the prior three cases, sites were leased or bought from private developers, while in Akron the city is the seller. The city gambled big on the site of the mall, which closed a decade ago, buying it at sheriff's sale and demolishing it.

Asked about Amazon as the unidentified developer or user, Ellen Lander Nischt, press secretary for Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan, wrote in an email, "The city has no comment to offer."

Amazon spokeswoman Rachael Lighty has repeatedly said, and reiterated last Thursday, Aug. 23, that the company does not comment on rumors or speculation.

A media spokesman at Fortress did not return an email and phone call last week.