For more than 50 years, The Hollingsworth Companies has built, leased, and owned single tenant industrial buildings across the Southeast. These case studies document real projects and real tenants: what they needed, what we did, and how it turned out.
Metl Span had an 84,500 SF plant designed around its panel line in roughly eight months, and the building kept running through two changes of corporate ownership.
Prince George County, Virginia
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The USPS had a $2 million prototype mail sort up-fit permitted and completed in 12 weeks, a record for speed of completion on a USPS building.
Knoxville MSA, Tennessee
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Shape Corporation leased 173,888 SF of a standing Hollingsworth building at SouthPoint Huntsville in 2023, with expansion to 206,288 SF secured.
Huntsville, Alabama · 2023
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Wilson Lumber, a 70 year old Huntsville family company, took a 108,960 SF build to suit at SouthPoint designed to expand to 206,220 SF.
Huntsville, Alabama · 2021
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Worldwide Retail Solutions leased a 194,880 SF speculative building at SouthPoint Prince George in 2022, committing roughly 60 jobs and $4 million.
Prince George County, Virginia · 2022
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Polaris leased two speculative Hollingsworth buildings at SouthPoint Huntsville totaling more than 800,000 SF, each as it completed, in 2021 and 2022.
Huntsville, Alabama · 2021
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Scott Bader opened its first US operation in a standing 108,960 SF Hollingsworth building at SouthPoint Mocksville, investing $16 million and creating 27 jobs.
Mocksville, North Carolina · 2021
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HemaSource leased 114,800 SF of a new 127,900 SF Hollingsworth building at David Jones Industrial Park, enabled by Anderson County's first TIF.
Andersonville, Tennessee · 2016
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Hollingsworth delivered Hanon Systems' 195,000 SF build to suit in Loudon, TN six months early, then a second 195,360 SF building in January 2024.
Loudon, Tennessee
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Ficosa consolidated five operations into a 264,750 SF Hollingsworth build to suit in Cookeville, TN, a $58 million project with roughly 1,000 jobs.
Cookeville, Tennessee · 2015
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HDT consolidated its military shelter manufacturing into a 206,500 SF Hollingsworth building at SouthPoint Huntsville, bringing more than 120 jobs from Virginia.
Huntsville, Alabama · 2016
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Dunlop Aircraft Tyres opened its first US retreading operation in a Hollingsworth building at SouthPoint Mocksville, NC under a 20 year lease.
Mocksville, North Carolina · 2016
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Fehrer Automotive grew roughly 400 percent over twelve years in Gadsden, AL while Hollingsworth expanded its building from 238,000 to 491,000 SF.
Gadsden, Alabama · 2009
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Campofrio Food Group leased a 143,790 SF Hollingsworth building at SouthPoint Virginia, with refrigerated space expanded from 34,800 SF to more than 50,000.
Prince George County, Virginia · 2019
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Dansons Inc., maker of Pit Boss grills, purchased a 259,960 SF Fayetteville, NC building from Hollingsworth for East Coast distribution and a call center.
Fayetteville, North Carolina · 2020
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Crossville Inc. leased a 130,424 SF Hollingsworth building at Huntington Business Park, seven miles from I-40 on the I-75 corridor.
Loudon, Tennessee · 2023
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Aldez leased a standing Hollingsworth building at SouthPoint Huntsville in time for the Mazda Toyota plant start-up, then grew to a second North Alabama site.
Huntsville, Alabama · 2020
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BHS Corrugated's 126,824 SF building at David Jones Industrial Park was completed in 2022 as a mirror image of the building next door, on a site prepared before the deal existed.
Andersonville, Tennessee · 2021
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Service Center Metals grew from a greenfield start into a national aluminum extrusion leader, with three Hollingsworth buildings totaling 426,000 SF.
Prince George County, Virginia · 2002
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Scapa Healthcare's 152,480 SF medical device building was delivered on time through the 8th wettest year on record and a mid-project scope addition.
Knoxville, Tennessee · 2018
Read the case study about Scapa HealthcareYes. Hollingsworth has developed more than 20 million square feet across 200 plus properties since 1972, including buildings for Tier 1 automotive suppliers, medical device manufacturers, aluminum extruders, aerospace companies, and defense manufacturers. The case studies on this page document specific projects with named companies, dates, and outcomes.
Tenants and clients documented in these case studies include automotive suppliers, medical device and healthcare manufacturers, food producers, building products companies, defense manufacturers, consumer brands, and the United States Postal Service, across Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama.
Documented projects include a $2 million USPS finish to suit permitted and completed in 12 weeks, a medical device building delivered on time through the 8th wettest year on record, and a build to suit accelerated six months ahead of schedule. Finish to suit space can be completed in as little as 30 days depending on scope.
Yes. Hollingsworth has owned and operated its buildings since 1972 and holds for the long term, so the landlord at signing is still the landlord at every expansion and renewal.
Cookeville, Tennessee is the primary market for current availability, with buildings under development in Sweetwater, Tennessee, Aiken, South Carolina, and Grenada, Mississippi. See the available buildings page for current inventory.
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