Amazon just can’t quit Prince George’s County.

After residents derailed the company’s plans to build a new fulfillment center there, the online retailer has signed leases on two different facilities in Lanham and Upper Marlboro, County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced Thursday.

Both locations will serve as last-mile “delivery stations” that shuttle packages to local residents’ doors, an Amazon spokesperson told the Baltimore Business Journal. They’re expected to open by late December.

The announcement arrives less than one year after Amazon canceled plans to open a fulfillment center in the Westphalia area of Upper Marlboro, following an outcry from residents. Locals packed public hearings and launched a Twitter hashtag aimed at shelving plans for the 4 million square-foot warehouse, saying it would bring heavy congestion and low-paying jobs to what was originally slated to be a retail center.

After the deal was scuttled, Alsobrooks pledged to work with Amazon to find other locations in the county. On Thursday, the executive trumpeted the company’s new investment in Prince George’s.

“We are so excited for what Amazon and its last mile facilities will bring to the County, along with the employment and entrepreneurship opportunities they will provide,” Alsobrooks said in a statement.

Jobs at the delivery stations will pay a minimum of $15 per hour plus benefits, according to Alsobrooks.

Amazon’s delivery stations are different from fulfillment centers, the massive warehouses where workers package orders for shipment. The stations replace third-party carriers like the U.S. Postal Service, funneling Amazon orders through its own increasingly large shipping network.

Amazon has invested $60 billion in building out warehouse space, renting airplanes and scooping up delivery vans since 2014, according to Bank of America Global Research. It’s now the country’s fourth-largest delivery service in the U.S., positioning the company to compete directly with established carriers like FedEx and UPS.

The retailer’s delivery stations provide opportunities for residents to launch their own businesses delivering Amazon packages, Alsobrooks said in a statement. The company pays thousands of independent contractors to deliver parcels through its Amazon Flex program.

Drivers who have worked for Amazon Flex have complained about intense shifts, high expenses and a lack of protections and benefits for workers, who are not direct Amazon employees. The program has also drawn scorn from drivers who say it used their tips to pay their base wages, a controversial practice the company reportedly ended.

Amazon’s two new delivery stations in Prince George’s are among seven it has planned in Maryland, including in Hagerstown, Hanover, Waldorf and Glen Burnie. Two facilities in Edgewood opened earlier this year.

The online behemoth announced in March that it would hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers to meet a “surge in demand” during the public health crisis. Amazon says it has already hired more than 1,000 employees for its in-progress corporate headquarters in Arlington, and the company operates multiple data centers in Northern Virginia.