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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Warehouses and other industrial facilities are popping up in Otay Mesa, a community in the southern section of San Diego on the border with Mexico, at a staggering pace — most notably in the form of an enormous new 3.4 million-square-foot Amazon distribution center. The expansion is being driven by international trade patterns that have encouraged companies to relocate import-export facilities from Asia to Mexico, where goods are then shipped into the United States. Amazon’s presence in the region, for example, includes a sister facility in Tijuana. Government officials see the situation as an…