It wasn't so much that as it is really the only decent choice... Louisville International Airport (SDF, formerly Standiford Field) is practically ran by UPS an

It wasn't so much that as it is really the only decent choice... Louisville International Airport (SDF, formerly Standiford Field) is practically ran by UPS and Bluegrass Airport (LEX) is too small for the kind of volume they want to put through and the runways are too short for the size of planes they want to land there (and though they've tried time and time again, they can't expand Bluegrass Airport because the land owners around and Versailles road). Memphis International (MEM) is further from the "center" so to speak and less desirable thusly, but it too is already pretty much ran by FedEx (and is currently the heaviest trafficked shipping airport in the US)... There were talks for many many years about a central Kentucky airport on the land the Blue Grass Army Depot is on after it would have been decommissioned by the incineration of the nerve gas on site (or now, destroyed via supercritical oxygenation via water), but the army has been dragging their feet (as they wanted to just burn it, but Craig Williams and the Berea and Richmond community put our feet down and said "Hell no, honor your commitment to safely dispose of the material.")... Now it is starting to look like the Army may never actually decommission the depot as they're starting to ship more old munitions in (safer ones, like plastic explosives and not deadly poison nerve gas) to be destroyed via the Bechtel chemical disposal plant. Kentucky is sort of the "shipping nexus" of the United States being closest to the center of the country while still having access to the I-75 interstate shipping corridor and cheap land for building warehouses on. Amazon really could not pick a better location than CVG at this time...