diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 0249cdf975..65a26772e3 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - custom_attach_workspace
       - init_environment
-      - run: node scripts/build-packages-dist.js
+      - run: node scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js
 
       # Save the npm packages from //packages/... for other workflow jobs to read
       - persist_to_workspace:
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - custom_attach_workspace
       - init_environment
-      - run: node scripts/build-ivy-npm-packages.js
+      - run: node scripts/build/build-ivy-npm-packages.js
 
       # Save the npm packages from //packages/... for other workflow jobs to read
       - persist_to_workspace:
diff --git a/aio/tools/ng-packages-installer/index.js b/aio/tools/ng-packages-installer/index.js
index 63ae532483..8db9a480af 100644
--- a/aio/tools/ng-packages-installer/index.js
+++ b/aio/tools/ng-packages-installer/index.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const PACKAGE_JSON_REGEX = /^[^/]+\/package\.json$/;
 
 const ANGULAR_ROOT_DIR = path.resolve(__dirname, '../../..');
 const ANGULAR_DIST_PACKAGES = path.join(ANGULAR_ROOT_DIR, 'dist/packages-dist');
-const ANGULAR_DIST_PACKAGES_BUILD_SCRIPT = path.join(ANGULAR_ROOT_DIR, 'scripts/build-packages-dist.js');
+const ANGULAR_DIST_PACKAGES_BUILD_SCRIPT = path.join(ANGULAR_ROOT_DIR, 'scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js');
 const ANGULAR_DIST_PACKAGES_BUILD_CMD = `"${process.execPath}" "${ANGULAR_DIST_PACKAGES_BUILD_SCRIPT}"`;
 
 /**
diff --git a/aio/tools/ng-packages-installer/index.spec.js b/aio/tools/ng-packages-installer/index.spec.js
index 7511e86200..04cfb9f52e 100644
--- a/aio/tools/ng-packages-installer/index.spec.js
+++ b/aio/tools/ng-packages-installer/index.spec.js
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ describe('NgPackagesInstaller', () => {
     };
 
     it('should build the local packages, when not on Windows', () => {
-      const buildScript = path.join(ngRootDir, 'scripts/build-packages-dist.js');
+      const buildScript = path.join(ngRootDir, 'scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js');
       const buildCmd = `"${process.execPath}" "${buildScript}"`;
 
       buildDistPackagesOnPlatform('linux');
diff --git a/docs/DEBUG_COMPONENTS_REPO_IVY.md b/docs/DEBUG_COMPONENTS_REPO_IVY.md
index 4dc2e5b56c..59feffafb8 100644
--- a/docs/DEBUG_COMPONENTS_REPO_IVY.md
+++ b/docs/DEBUG_COMPONENTS_REPO_IVY.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Currently all changes to Ivy are validated against the test suite of the
 `angular/components` repository. In order to debug the `components-repo-unit-tests` CI
 job, the following steps can be used:
 
-1\) Build the Ivy package output by running `node ./scripts/build-ivy-npm-packages.js` in
+1\) Build the Ivy package output by running `node ./scripts/build/build-ivy-npm-packages.js` in
 the `angular/angular` repo.
 
 2\) Clone the `angular/components` repository if not done yet ([quick link to repo](https://github.com/angular/components)).
diff --git a/docs/DEVELOPER.md b/docs/DEVELOPER.md
index 38ddf18c9c..cae2d95ce9 100644
--- a/docs/DEVELOPER.md
+++ b/docs/DEVELOPER.md
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ yarn install
 To build Angular run:
 
 ```shell
-node ./scripts/build-packages-dist.js
+node ./scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js
 ```
 
 * Results are put in the `dist/packages-dist` folder.
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ c. Some package managers (such as `pnpm` or `yarn pnp`) might not work correctly
 ### Publishing to GitHub repos
 You can also manually publish `*-builds` snapshots just like our CircleCI build does for upstream
 builds. Before being able to publish the packages, you need to build them locally by running the
-`./scripts/build-packages-dist.js` script.
+`./scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js` script.
 
 First time, you need to create the GitHub repositories:
 
diff --git a/integration/README.md b/integration/README.md
index 071b2cf312..84b9dbe21e 100644
--- a/integration/README.md
+++ b/integration/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This directory contains end-to-end tests for Angular. Each directory is a self-c
 that exactly mimics how a user might expect Angular to work, so they allow high-fidelity
 reproductions of real-world issues.
 
-For this to work, we first build the Angular distribution via `./scripts/build-packages-dist.js`, then
+For this to work, we first build the Angular distribution via `./scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js`, then
 install the distribution into each app.
 
 To test Angular CLI applications, we use the `cli-hello-world-*` integration tests.
diff --git a/integration/cli-hello-world-ivy-compat/debug-test.sh b/integration/cli-hello-world-ivy-compat/debug-test.sh
index fc9aca7945..38013c4ffc 100755
--- a/integration/cli-hello-world-ivy-compat/debug-test.sh
+++ b/integration/cli-hello-world-ivy-compat/debug-test.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ set -u -e -o pipefail
 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 
-node $(pwd)/../../scripts/build-packages-dist.js
+node $(pwd)/../../scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js
 
 # Workaround https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/2165
 # Yarn will cache file://dist URIs and not update Angular code
diff --git a/integration/cli-hello-world-ivy-minimal/debug-test.sh b/integration/cli-hello-world-ivy-minimal/debug-test.sh
index fc9aca7945..38013c4ffc 100755
--- a/integration/cli-hello-world-ivy-minimal/debug-test.sh
+++ b/integration/cli-hello-world-ivy-minimal/debug-test.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ set -u -e -o pipefail
 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 
-node $(pwd)/../../scripts/build-packages-dist.js
+node $(pwd)/../../scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js
 
 # Workaround https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/2165
 # Yarn will cache file://dist URIs and not update Angular code
diff --git a/integration/ivy-i18n/debug-test.sh b/integration/ivy-i18n/debug-test.sh
index fc9aca7945..38013c4ffc 100755
--- a/integration/ivy-i18n/debug-test.sh
+++ b/integration/ivy-i18n/debug-test.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ set -u -e -o pipefail
 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 
-node $(pwd)/../../scripts/build-packages-dist.js
+node $(pwd)/../../scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js
 
 # Workaround https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/2165
 # Yarn will cache file://dist URIs and not update Angular code
diff --git a/integration/language_service_plugin/package.json b/integration/language_service_plugin/package.json
index c097f840da..7c9b73c6de 100644
--- a/integration/language_service_plugin/package.json
+++ b/integration/language_service_plugin/package.json
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "build": "tsc -p tsconfig.json",
-    "build-dist": "node ../../scripts/build-packages-dist.js && yarn install --check-files",
+    "build-dist": "node ../../scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js && yarn install --check-files",
     "cleanup": "rm -rf ti-*.log tsserver.log",
     "golden": "yarn build && node generate.js",
     "test": "yarn cleanup && yarn build && jasmine test.js"
diff --git a/integration/ng_elements_schematics/package.json b/integration/ng_elements_schematics/package.json
index 96c5faf6a1..626a119310 100644
--- a/integration/ng_elements_schematics/package.json
+++ b/integration/ng_elements_schematics/package.json
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "build": "tsc -p tsconfig.json",
-    "build-dist": "node ../../scripts/build-packages-dist.js && yarn install --check-files",
+    "build-dist": "node ../../scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js && yarn install --check-files",
     "test": "yarn build && node test.js"
   }
 }
diff --git a/integration/ngcc/debug-test.sh b/integration/ngcc/debug-test.sh
index d7ed06be59..83d3ed6894 100755
--- a/integration/ngcc/debug-test.sh
+++ b/integration/ngcc/debug-test.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ set -u -e -o pipefail
 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 
-node $(pwd)/../../scripts/build-packages-dist.js
+node $(pwd)/../../scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js
 
 # Workaround https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/2165
 # Yarn will cache file://dist URIs and not update Angular code
diff --git a/integration/run_tests.sh b/integration/run_tests.sh
index 0e97016da9..ed9cd09578 100755
--- a/integration/run_tests.sh
+++ b/integration/run_tests.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ if $CI; then
 else
   # Not on CircleCI so let's build the packages-dist directory.
   # This should be fast on incremental re-build.
-  node ${basedir}/scripts/build-packages-dist.js
+  node ${basedir}/scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js
 
   # If we aren't running on CircleCI, we do not shard tests because this would be the job of
   # Bazel eventually. For now, we just run all tests sequentially when running locally.
diff --git a/scripts/build-package-dist.js b/scripts/build-package-dist.js
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..db67b5f956
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build-package-dist.js
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
+ * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
+ */
+
+// The build script used to be here but has been moved to `scripts/build/` in PR
+// https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/35780. This is a temporary placeholder script for people
+// that are not aware of the change and expect to find the script here.
+//
+// TODO: This script can be removed early May 2020.
+'use strict';
+
+const {red} = require('chalk');
+const {relative, resolve} = require('path');
+
+
+const absoluteScriptPath = resolve(`${__dirname}/build/build-packages-dist.js`);
+const relativeScriptPath = relative(process.cwd(), absoluteScriptPath);
+
+console.error(red('ERROR: The build script has been moved to \'scripts/build/\'.'));
+console.error(red(`       Run: node ${relativeScriptPath}`));
+
+process.exit(1);
diff --git a/scripts/build-packages-dist.js b/scripts/build-packages-dist.js
deleted file mode 100755
index 97d1568d10..0000000000
--- a/scripts/build-packages-dist.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env node
-/**
- * @license
- * Copyright Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- *
- * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
- * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
- */
-
-'use strict';
-
-const {chmod, cp, mkdir, rm} = require('shelljs');
-const {
-  baseDir,
-  bazelBin,
-  bazelCmd,
-  buildTargetPackages,
-  exec,
-  scriptPath,
-} = require('./package-builder');
-
-
-// Build the legacy (view engine) npm packages into `dist/packages-dist/`.
-buildTargetPackages('dist/packages-dist', false, 'Production');
-
-// Build the `zone.js` npm package (into `dist/bin/packages/zone.js/npm_package/`), because it might
-// be needed by other scripts/tests.
-//
-// NOTE: The `zone.js` package is not built as part of `buildTargetPackages()` above, nor is it
-//       copied into the `dist/packages-dist/` directory (despite its source's being inside
-//       `packages/`), because it is not published to npm under the `@angular` scope (as happens for
-//       the rest of the packages).
-console.info('');
-console.info('##############################');
-console.info(`${scriptPath}:`);
-console.info('  Building zone.js npm package');
-console.info('##############################');
-exec(`${bazelCmd} build //packages/zone.js:npm_package`);
-
-// Copy artifacts to `dist/zone.js-dist/`, so they can be easier persisted on CI.
-const buildOutputDir = `${bazelBin}/packages/zone.js/npm_package`;
-const distTargetDir = `${baseDir}/dist/zone.js-dist/zone.js`;
-
-console.info(`# Copy artifacts to ${distTargetDir}`);
-mkdir('-p', distTargetDir);
-rm('-rf', distTargetDir);
-cp('-R', buildOutputDir, distTargetDir);
-chmod('-R', 'u+w', distTargetDir);
diff --git a/scripts/build-ivy-npm-packages.js b/scripts/build/build-ivy-npm-packages.js
similarity index 85%
rename from scripts/build-ivy-npm-packages.js
rename to scripts/build/build-ivy-npm-packages.js
index 8577c0e6de..04bdec2776 100755
--- a/scripts/build-ivy-npm-packages.js
+++ b/scripts/build/build-ivy-npm-packages.js
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
  * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
  * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
  */
+
 'use strict';
 
 const {buildTargetPackages} = require('./package-builder');
 
 
-// Build the ivy packages.
+// Build the ivy packages into `dist/packages-dist-ivy-aot/`.
 buildTargetPackages('dist/packages-dist-ivy-aot', true, 'Ivy AOT');
diff --git a/scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js b/scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..446add09b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build/build-packages-dist.js
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
+ * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const {buildZoneJsPackage} = require('./zone-js-builder');
+const {buildTargetPackages} = require('./package-builder');
+
+
+// Build the legacy (view engine) npm packages into `dist/packages-dist/`.
+buildTargetPackages('dist/packages-dist', false, 'Production');
+
+// Build the `zone.js` npm package into `dist/zone.js-dist/`, because it might be needed by other
+// scripts/tests.
+buildZoneJsPackage();
diff --git a/scripts/package-builder.js b/scripts/build/package-builder.js
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
similarity index 97%
rename from scripts/package-builder.js
rename to scripts/build/package-builder.js
index 668f35762a..b5c2d53350
--- a/scripts/package-builder.js
+++ b/scripts/build/package-builder.js
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ set('-e');
 
 
 /** @type {string} The absolute path to the project root directory. */
-const baseDir = resolve(`${__dirname}/..`);
+const baseDir = resolve(`${__dirname}/../..`);
 
 /** @type {string} The command to use for running bazel. */
 const bazelCmd = `yarn --cwd "${baseDir}" --silent bazel`;
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ const bazelBin = exec(`${bazelCmd} info bazel-bin`, true);
 const scriptPath = relative(baseDir, require.main.filename);
 
 module.exports = {
-    baseDir, bazelBin, bazelCmd, buildTargetPackages, exec, scriptPath,
+  baseDir, bazelBin, bazelCmd, buildTargetPackages, exec, scriptPath,
 };
 
 /**
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ function buildTargetPackages(destPath, enableIvy, description) {
       chmod('-R', 'u+w', destDir);
     }
   });
+
+  console.info('');
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/scripts/build/zone-js-builder.js b/scripts/build/zone-js-builder.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..59cb8de31f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build/zone-js-builder.js
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
+ * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const {chmod, cp, mkdir, rm} = require('shelljs');
+const {baseDir, bazelBin, bazelCmd, exec, scriptPath} = require('./package-builder');
+
+
+module.exports = {
+  buildZoneJsPackage,
+};
+
+/**
+ * Build the `zone.js` npm package into `dist/bin/packages/zone.js/npm_package/` and copy it to
+ * `dist/zone.js-dist/` for other scripts/tests to use.
+ *
+ * NOTE: The `zone.js` package is not built as part of `package-builder`'s `buildTargetPackages()`
+ *       nor is it copied into the same directory as the Angular packages (e.g.
+ *       `dist/packages-dist/`) despite its source's being inside `packages/`, because it is not
+ *       published to npm under the `@angular` scope (as happens for the rest of the packages).
+ */
+function buildZoneJsPackage() {
+  console.info('##############################');
+  console.info(`${scriptPath}:`);
+  console.info('  Building zone.js npm package');
+  console.info('##############################');
+  exec(`${bazelCmd} build //packages/zone.js:npm_package`);
+
+  // Copy artifacts to `dist/zone.js-dist/`, so they can be easier persisted on CI and used by
+  // non-bazel scripts/tests.
+  const buildOutputDir = `${bazelBin}/packages/zone.js/npm_package`;
+  const distTargetDir = `${baseDir}/dist/zone.js-dist/zone.js`;
+
+  console.info(`# Copy artifacts to ${distTargetDir}`);
+  mkdir('-p', distTargetDir);
+  rm('-rf', distTargetDir);
+  cp('-R', buildOutputDir, distTargetDir);
+  chmod('-R', 'u+w', distTargetDir);
+
+  console.info('');
+}