Core5 to Build $52M Industrial Facility, Corporate Headquarters for Beverage Distributor in Metro Atlanta

AUSTELL, GA. — Atlanta-based Core5 Industrial Partners has unveiled plans to construct a 601,350-square-foot build-to-suit facility for Empire Distributors at 685 Hartman Road in Austell, roughly 18 miles west of Atlanta. Total project costs are estimated at more than $52 million. Upon completion of the property in the fourth quarter, the beverage distributor will relocate to the new facility from its current 300,000-square-foot location at Atlanta Industrial Park. The new climate-controlled facility will house Empire’s corporate headquarters and regional distribution operations, and will include 80,000 square feet of two-story office space. Empire will move more than 440 employees to the new facility, with anticipated growth to more than 510 employees within 10 years. Randall Paulson Architects and Southeast Engineering Inc. are designing the building, Plateau Excavating is the site work contractor, and KBDG Inc. is the general contractor. Bilijack Bell of Wilson, Hull & Real Estate represented Core5 in the land acquisition, and Blaine Kelley of CBRE represented Empire in the acquisition of the facility.