Amazon.com may be willing to build its $250 million distribution campus on the site of the demolished Pontiac Silverdome without any of the financially generous state and local development incentives that often support its real-estate projects.

Pontiac Mayor Deirdre Waterman said the e-commerce giant has not requested subsidies or incentives from local government to help construct the planned fulfillment center and delivery station, which together are expected to employ 1,500 people.

To her knowledge, Amazon also hasn't sought any state-level incentives for the project, such as grants or tax breaks.

This situation would be a change from Amazon's past practices in Michigan.

Since 2016, the Seattle-based company has obtained a total of $21 million in performance-based grants from the Michigan Strategic Fund, an arm of the state, to construct four fulfillment centers in Livonia, Romulus, Shelby Township and near Grand Rapids.

Those grants were contingent on the company creating set numbers of jobs at each site. Separately, Amazon obtained a $10-million Macomb County brownfield redevelopment incentive for the Shelby Township project.

Amazon has come under criticism in some quarters for seeking public subsidies when it is one of world's most successful and dominant companies, and utilizing strategies to drastically lower its federal tax bill.

"They didn’t, as far as I know, ask for any state or federal incentives," Waterman said last week of the Silverdome site project.

"It is quite unusual, because in doing my due diligence in talking to mayors of other cities that have fulfillment centers, they’ve all been asked for incentives," the mayor said. "So, to this date, I can clearly state that no, the city has not been asked for any incentives nor offered any.”

The 127-acre site is within a federal Opportunity Zone, a designation that can provide capital gains tax breaks to investors who put money into certain development projects. However, it is not known whether Amazon plans to make use of that designation, Waterman said.

Amazon did not response to multiple messages for comment.

A spokesman for the Michigan Strategic Fund said he couldn't comment on whether the online retailer has inquired about or sought incentives for the Pontiac project. He did say that so far, no such requests have come before the strategic fund's board for consideration.

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The Pontiac project was announced last September as Amazon's first site in the U.S. that will have both a fulfillment center and a delivery station.

Atlanta-based Seefried Industrial Properties is developing the two projects and will own the site, with Amazon becoming its tenant. A Seefried representative also didn't respond to questions for this story.

Early site work has begun, and Amazon's delivery station could be finished as early as this fall with the 3.8 million-square-foot fulfillment center operational by fall 2021, according to city documents.

Mayor Waterman said construction crews anticipate working seven days a week to finish the project and meet Amazon's deadlines. The company appears focused on getting the buildings up quickly, she said.

“They (Amazon) wanted to move so expeditiously that they were willing to forgo any other negotiations having to do with any incentives or offers," the mayor said.

Once home to the Detroit Lions, the privately owned Silverdome was imploded in December 2017 on the second attempt after a botched initial try.

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