Fastenal is shaking up its Atlanta-area logistics footprint, shifting a key hub from southwest Atlanta to Carrollton and leaning on a larger, modern distribution center to keep the industrial-supply wholesaler competitive across the Southeast.
What’s Changing And Where
The company plans to retire an aging Atlanta-area hub and replace it with a new, larger facility on a parcel along Old Airport Road in Carrollton, while vacating its existing distribution site at 6445 Fulton Industrial Blvd SW in southwest Atlanta, according to CoStar. By pairing a greenfield build in western Georgia with an exit from a smaller urban DC, Fastenal appears to be chasing more capacity and more automation in order to serve the Southeast more…..