Savannah Chamber

49 Examples of development include Chesterfield LLC constructing 1.2 million square feet in three buildings in the Savannah River International Trade Park – for JLA Home, Averitt Express and a spec building. Floor and Décor and Shaw moved into new facilities with a combined total of 2.4 million square feet in the fall of 2018. Atlanta-based Capital Development Partners Inc. broke ground on the Savannah Port Logistics Center, a new 2.3-million-square-foot, $125 million project. In Effingham County, the Georgia International Trade Center, a $500 million industrial park consisting of 1,150 acres along Georgia 21, brings the potential for an additional 7.2 million square feet of warehousing space in the Savannah market. The park, developed in partnership with Stonemont Financial Group of Atlanta and Chesterfield, LLC in Jacksonville, will fill an immediate need for warehousing space with the first two speculative buildings totaling 562,000 square feet being constructed in 2019. Effingham County saw an increase in logistics activity in 2018 with the opening of Perdue Foods and Amazon Logistics. Perdue, in partnership with Lineage Logistics, now operates a fresh packaged chicken warehouse that employs over 150 workers and will provide antibiotic-free and organic poultry products to the Southeastern US. Amazon Logistics erected a 9,400 square foot delivery station facility that will employ up to 100 people, and will provide a wider variety of delivery options and speeds in the region. This is the first facility of its type in Georgia. In Liberty County, the year ended with the announcement of a new project in Tradeport East. Western Power Sports started clearing a 33-acre site for the construction of a 240,000 square feet facility expandable to 400,000 square feet that is expected to employ up to 90 persons within the first five years. A 25-acre site was purchased in Tradeport East for future expansion by Florapharm, a German tea distributor currently located in Hinesville.

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