Amazon breaks ground on massive east-end warehouse

It was a day for superlatives as a who’s who of local, provincial and federal politicians gathered alongside Amazon officials to break ground in Carlsbad Springs for the online retail giant’s first Ottawa-area warehouse on Monday.
Huge. Biggest. Great.
The warehouse, at a touch over a million square feet, will be the largest industrial building in the region. It will be the size of 60 NHL hockey rinks. If you were to fill the behemoth with maple syrup, there would be about 30 litres