Americold Acquires Georgia-Based Lanier Cold Storage for $82M, Adds 14 Million Cubic Feet to Portfolio

ATLANTA — Americold Realty Trust has acquired Lanier Cold Storage for $82 million. Lanier Cold Storage has two temperature-controlled facilities northeast of Atlanta along Interstate 985. The two facilities total 14 million refrigerated cubic feet and have 51,000 pallet positions. The assets are designed to serve poultry and other products to markets across the country. According to GeorgiaInfo, an online almanac, the poultry industry contributes more than $18.4 billion to the state’s economy each year. Atlanta-based Americold currently has a 3.8 million-cubic-foot facility in Gainesville, one of its 155 temperature-controlled warehouses in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Argentina.