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Frito-Lay cancels $180M Osceola County fulfillment center

Lay's potato chips pack seen in a Target superstore LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES - 2020/02/01: Lay's potato chips pack seen in a Target superstore. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett)

ORLANDO, Fla. — Editor’s note: This story is available as a result of a content partnership between WFTV and the Orlando Business Journal.

After years without updates, the Frito-Lay fulfillment center project in Osceola County is canceled, according to a county spokesperson. The project had been announced as a more than $100 million investment with plans to create more than 100 jobs.

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Orlando Business Journal first reported on the Plano, Texas-based snack food subsidiary of PepsiCo Inc. planning to build a high-tech fulfillment center in 2018, with the city and PepsiCo announcing in 2021 an $180 million investment in a 355,000-square-foot mega-fulfillment center. It would create 180 full-time jobs in the area.

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Construction was planned to begin in early 2022, hiring for jobs in late 2023, and the site was to be operational by early 2024.

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