{"id":3514,"date":"2025-05-14T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:58:42","slug":"amazon-pushes-into-rv-territory-with-200-site-rv-park-in-hermiston-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/amazon-pushes-into-rv-territory-with-200-site-rv-park-in-hermiston-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Pushes into RV Territory With 200-Site RV Park in Hermiston, OR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Internet giant Amazon is getting into all kinds of markets. RVers have been closely watching the company\u2019s move to become an internet satellite provider through Project Kuiper. Now Amazon is getting into the RV park business. Well, sort of. Hermiston, Oregon, will soon become the home of a new Amazon RV park.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Amazon RV park to benefit both the company, and the community<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Company offspring Amazon Web Services wants to build a huge data center near Hermiston. While under construction, plenty of workers will need a place to stay. Amazon recognizes that a lot of the temporary construction workers move from job site to job site in RVs. Why not build an RV park as a spot for these folks to stay during the build?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Amazon\u2019s forte isn\u2019t the construction business, so the company approached Hermiston city officials and made them an offer they couldn\u2019t refuse. \u201cHere,\u201d says Amazon. \u201cWe\u2019ll give you $8 million, you build us an RV park on city land on or near the Eastern Oregon Trade &amp; Event Center. Build 200 RV sites, you can keep 100 of them for yourself, and reserve the other half for us to rent from you.\u201d Nah, we don\u2019t think they used those exact words, but that\u2019s what it boiled down to.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3515 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Amazon-RV2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On Monday, May 11, the city council voted 6 to 1 to take the $8 million and run. While officially speaking, \u201cThe [other 100] remaining spaces will be available for events,\u201d Assistant City Manager Mark Morgan told us the city has plans to rent those spaces out to RVers visiting the city at any time, not just during events.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Morgan told us that the city hopes to have the new \u201cAmazon RV park\u201d completed by the end of 2026. Amazon will dole out the $8 million in four payments through the construction period.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rvtravel.com\/data-centers-dump-stations-amazon-bankrolls-200-site-rv-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet giant Amazon is getting into all kinds of markets. RVers have been closely watching the company\u2019s move to become an internet satellite provider through Project Kuiper. Now Amazon is getting into the RV park business. Well, sort of. Hermiston, Oregon, will soon become the home of a new Amazon RV park. Amazon RV park to benefit both the company, and the community Company offspring Amazon Web Services wants to build a huge data center near Hermiston. While under construction, plenty of workers will need a place to stay. 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