Academy Sports + Outdoors - Cookeville, TN

Rapid Growth.

Academy Sports + Outdoors, one of the nation’s largest sporting goods retailers, elected Tennessee as home for its newest distribution center. The company reached out to Gray to design and build the new campus to accommodates its growth.

  • Location
    Cookeville, TN
  • Square Footage
    1,614,426 s.f.
  • Operational
    14 months
Academy Sports + Outdoors - Cookeville, TN
Cookeville, TN
1,614,426 s.f.
14 months

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Gray and Academy have a history of successful projects including a distribution center in Jeffersonville, GA., and retail facilities in Decatur, AL and Prattville, AL, among others.

 

This 1.6 million s.f. distribution facility sits on more than 250 acres and, at the time, was the largest distribution facility in Tennessee under one roof. This project features a warehouse, office, cafeteria, and computer room. The warehouse includes 21,585 s.f. of AS/RS area. The Cookeville distribution center supports Academy Sports + Outdoors’ Midwest network of stores, as well as its growing e-commerce business.

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