Amazon has informed Austin planning officials in the Austin suburb of Round Rock, TX that it is putting on "hold" a $250M fulfillment center the e-commerce giant was planning to build on a 193-acre site an Amazon subsidiary purchased for development in November.

According to a report in the Austin Business Journal, Amazon told the officials in Round Rock that it is considering canceling the warehouse project. 

"Amazon has placed the project on hold indefinitely and may not move forward on the site in the future," Brad Wiseman, Round Rock's city director of planning and development services, said in a May 26 email to ABJ.

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