Texas-based C&S Wholesale Grocers subsidiary Grocers Supply has made plans to significantly grow its presence in its home state. Liberty Property Trust announced that it has broken ground on a new 727,600-square-foot distribution center that Grocers Supply—distributor to Fiesta, Piggly Wiggly, and other retailers throughout Texas and the South—will lease long-term, providing the company with increased capacity and greater efficiency in serving the southeast Texas market.
“This project will consolidate several buildings into one state-of-the-art facility, thereby enhancing our ability to provide efficient and timely distribution throughout the market,” noted Max Henderson, President of Grocers Supply, in a press release reported on by the Houston Business Journal. “This long-term investment demonstrates Grocers Supply’s commitment to our highly-valued customers as well as growing our business in the years to come.”
Grocers Supply scrapped a similar project in 2014, Houston Business Journal also noted, when the company was acquired by C&S Wholesale Grocers.
The new facility will reportedly include a 540-foot-deep building with 40-foot clear height, 65-foot speed bays, and 75 dock doors. The distribution center will also feature two pre-engineered metal buildings—a 24,870-square-foot building for maintenance and a 20,020-square-foot one for pallet stripping—and Grocers Supply will also own 34 acres of land adjacent to the facility.
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