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NORTH EAST, MD. — Amazon plans to open a new 1.2 million-square-foot fulfillment center in North East, a town in northeast Maryland near the Delaware border. The e-commerce giant currently employs more than 3,000 associates at its fulfillment and sortation centers in Baltimore and plans to create 700 new positions at its new facility, the company’s third fulfillment center in Maryland. Situated within Principo Commerce Center I, the Amazon facility is a joint venture development between Trammell Crow Co. and Diamond Realty Investments. The joint venture broke ground on the project last May and plans to open the Amazon facility in the second quarter of this year.