LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB)Â -- UPS is planning to build a new $6.1 million temperature-controlled facility in Fairdale, according to reporting from our partners at Louisville Business First.
Permits filed with Louisville Metro Planning and Design show plans for a 42,000-square-foot cooling facility at 6204 New Cut Road. The plans call for the new cooler to be housed within the existing UPS Healthcare facility at that location. It will be built next to an existing cooler of similar size.
The Amgen cooler will store medicine and supplies in a climate-controlled environment. Amgen is a California-based pharmaceutical firm that bills itself as an "international biotech company that discovers, develops, manufactures and delivers medicines for millions of patients," according to its website.
It has plants around the world, including Louisville at 12000 Plantside Drive. UPS Healthcare has for years operated large-scale medical logistics facilities in the region, supported by the city's role as a major global cargo hub.
UPS Healthcare opened as a command center in 2019 for healthcare customers, and the Worldport hub received the first COVID vaccines in Dec. 2020. The shipping giant went on to distribute more than a billion doses of the vaccine.Â
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