Parts Town Unlimited has leased a 538,450-square-foot warehouse northeast of Atlanta for an automated fulfillment center that will become the largest distribution facility in its network.
The company plans to occupy the full building at Jackson 85 North in Pendergrass, Georgia, by the end of 2026, establishing its first Global Fulfillment Center specifically serving the Southeast.
Unlike many warehouse announcements that provide little detail about planned technology, Parts Town has identified several processes it intends to automate.
The facility will use robotic conveyance and AI-powered robotics, with automation planned across receiving, packing stations and shipping sortation. Trammell Crow Company, the project’s developer, has identified Locus Robotics as the planned provider of AI-powered robotics solutions.
The exact Locus product and configuration have not been disclosed. Parts Town also has not specified the number of robots or whether an automated storage and retrieval system will be installed.
The building itself provides a substantial platform for that fit-out.
Commercial property reporting identifies the 538,450-square-foot facility as a Class A cross-dock warehouse with 40-foot clear height and 124 dock doors.
It is Building 1 at Jackson 85 North, a speculative logistics development completed before Parts Town signed its lease.
Trammell Crow Company and CBRE Investment Management developed the first phase of the park, which comprises two buildings totaling approximately 1.56 million square feet on 215 acres.
The second building is substantially larger at just over 1 million square feet.
That development history means Parts Town is not constructing a 538,450-square-foot warehouse from the ground up. It is taking an existing logistics building and equipping it for its own inventory and fulfillment operation.
The Georgia facility will handle genuine OEM replacement parts across three principal categories: commercial foodservice equipment, residential appliances and HVAC equipment.
More than 140 Parts Town team members will be brought together at the operation, according to the company. Parts Town has not said that all of those positions represent new hires.
Its scale will push the Pendergrass building ahead of the company’s 427,000-square-foot Phoenix-area fulfillment center, which opened in late 2024.
That Arizona operation provides relevant context for Parts Town’s approach to warehouse automation, although its equipment specifications should not be transferred to Georgia.
Independent trade reporting on the Phoenix facility identified an AutoStore system containing 60,000 bins and 85 robots, along with 2.3 miles of conveyor.
Parts Town has not said that AutoStore will be deployed in Pendergrass or that the Georgia building will replicate Phoenix’s automation architecture. The identification of Locus Robotics for Pendergrass does not establish either.
What is confirmed is a continuation of automation as part of the company’s regional fulfillment strategy.
The Pendergrass plan extends automated processes across both inbound and outbound operations, from receiving through packing and shipping sortation. Parts Town says the technology is intended to increase productivity, improve space utilization and allow employees to concentrate on higher-value work.
Those benefits remain company expectations until the facility is operating and performance data is available.
The new center also changes the geography of Parts Town’s fulfillment network.
Pendergrass is roughly 60 miles northeast of Atlanta along the Interstate 85 corridor. From there, Parts Town intends to hold greater breadth and depth of OEM parts inventory closer to customers across the Southeast.
The company expects the expanded network to put 93% of the U.S. within two-day delivery range once the Georgia facility becomes operational.
It also plans local pickup and same-day delivery from Pendergrass, with some nearby customers potentially receiving parts in as little as two hours.
Neither service target has yet been demonstrated from the new facility because operations have not started.
Parts Town CEO Bill Geary said placing additional inventory in the Southeast is expected to reduce transit times and transportation costs while providing capacity for larger manufacturer inventories.
The company has not disclosed the inventory value, SKU capacity or expected daily order throughput at the new center.
The building’s physical configuration nevertheless provides some indication of the scale at which the operation can be developed.
In addition to its 40-foot clear height and 124 dock doors, Trammell Crow’s specifications for the development include 185-foot concrete truck courts, ESFR fire protection and electrical infrastructure designed for large logistics users.
Parts Town also says the operation will become its first LEED-certified Global Fulfillment Center, although it has not disclosed the certification level.
The Georgia project follows a rapid expansion of Parts Town’s physical fulfillment infrastructure.
Phoenix opened in 2024 as a 427,000-square-foot automated center. The 538,450-square-foot Pendergrass facility now extends that regional fulfillment model into the Southeast with more floor area and another planned automation deployment.
Parts Town’s other Global Fulfillment Centers include Chicago and Munich.
The company has not disclosed its investment in fitting out the Georgia building, its lease term or the cost of the planned automation.
Nor has it identified the WMS, WES or WCS that will coordinate the operation.
Those disclosures, along with the precise Locus configuration and broader material-handling architecture, will determine how the automation design in Pendergrass compares with Parts Town’s existing facilities.
What is already clear is the building’s intended role: rather than serving as overflow storage, the 538,450-square-foot cross-dock is being prepared as a major regional inventory and order-processing node, with automation planned from receiving through outbound sortation.
When it opens, Pendergrass will give Parts Town its largest fulfillment center yet and its first dedicated Southeast node, extending a technology-intensive distribution model already established elsewhere in the company’s network.