Google has slipped into a massive south Atlanta warehouse once occupied by Procter & Gamble, and it is not for a flashy new data center. The tech giant has signed on for old-fashioned storage and distribution in Union City, in an industrial corridor near Hartsfield-Jackson, adding another big box to its growing logistics footprint in Georgia. For industrial watchers, the move into an existing, full-building logistics shell underlines how prized truly move-in-ready warehouse space has become around metro Atlanta.
According to CoStar, Google has leased Majestic Airport Center III-Phase II, Building 1, a roughly 1 million-square-foot facility at 6720 Oakley Industrial Boulevard. CoStar reports that Google is using the space for storage and distribution, not for server racks or any other data center operations.
Commercial listings describe the property as a 1,001,893-square-foot cross-dock warehouse with about 130 dock-high doors, heavy electrical capacity and deep truck courts, according to marketing materials on PropertyShark. Those listings also show Majestic Realty as the firm marketing the building and indicate it was still available to tenants late last year.
What This Means For Atlanta’s Industrial Market
The deal is one of several big logistics plays across metro Atlanta as companies compete for modern, large-format warehouses to handle distribution and staging. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has recently highlighted similar large leases in the south Atlanta industrial corridor, while local coverage has tracked other big-ticket moves such as Copart’s recent purchase of a sizable Fulton Industrial facility (Copart gobbles up 228K-SF)…