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Champions for Forest Park Video – David Welch

Hi David,

Thank you for participating in the Champions For Forest Park initiative. You are among five (5) stakeholders in Forest Park invited to participate in the city’s inaugural video vignette series. Each month, from now through April 2022, Forest Park will feature one of the five videos on its website, and disseminate it via […]

Developers, major retailers keep betting on the Southside for logistics

Served by three interstate highways and in close proximity to the Atlanta airport and rail lines, the south side of the metro area has long been a favorite site for logistics operations.

From Coweta to Clayton and Henry counties, demand continued to grow amid the surge in e- commerce during the height of Covid-19 in 2020 […]

First Spec Industrial in a Decade on Tap for Memphis

Bullish on Memphis, Atlanta’s Robinson Weeks to Start Next Month on Distribution Center in City Limits

Memphis, Tennessee’s distribution market is warming up, so much so that an Atlanta developer next month will start the city’s first speculative industrial building in a decade.

Robinson Weeks Partners said this week it plans to start construction in September on […]

In Atlanta, it’s Not Just the Big Boxes That Need Industrial Space

The Packaging Firms That Make Actual Boxes Also Fill Distribution Centers

Large retailers’ e-commerce operations are fueling Atlanta’s big-box industrial boom, but they’re not the only ones.

Companies that create boxes to ship online orders are filling warehouses and distribution centers, too. The latest case in point is JIT Packaging’s large lease at Gillem Logistics Center, located […]

Cummins, Forest Park cut ribbon on 60 jobs at Gillem

FOREST PARK — The grand opening of Cummins’ Atlanta Regional Distribution Center at Gillem Logistics Center is good news for Forest Park — good news that has been a long time coming.

“It’s really humbling that a company of this magnitude would want to come to Forest Park and make this one of their bases,” said […]

6/5/17 New Logistics Property Coming to Metro Atlanta

New Logistics Property Coming to Metro Atlanta
The plan is to build a 1 million-square-foot logistics asset, which could be expanded to 1.4 million. The building is scheduled to be completed by the first quarter of 2018.

Rendering of Gillem Logistics Center buildingRobinson Weeks Properties broke ground on a new building in the Gillem Logistics Center, […]

5/13/16 Clayton County Zeroes in on Industries for Growth

Article by Martin Sinderman

Building upon inherent strengths in areas such as location, transportation infrastructure, and natural resources, Clayton County has targeted several industries for special attention in its economic development efforts.
The effort is based largely upon a strategic economic development plan prepared for the county in 2013 by Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, the university’s […]

3/24/16 Development Magazine: Gillem Logistics Center- From Army Base to Logistics Hub

Article by Development Magazine’s Contributing Writers, Forrest Robinsion and David Welch.

A closed Army base south of Atlanta is being transformed into a state-of-the-art logistics campus.
ROBINSON WEEKS Partners is spearheading the development of Gillem Logistics Center on the site of the former Fort Gillem Army Base. The 1,168-acre master-planned logistics center can accommodate more than 8 million square feet of […]

9/24/15 Clayton News Daily: Gillem breaks ground on another possible distribution center

Article by Cailin O’Brien.

Transcript of Cailin O’Brien’s Clayton News Daily article:

FOREST PARK — Key players in Gillem’s development gathered at the site Thursday to celebrate the groundbreaking for an expansive regional distribution center.
“An 850,000-square foot building is 20-acres under roof,” said David Welch. “Or think about 17 football fields end to end and side to side. […]

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