It is official. Nike is coming to Chickasaw Trail Industrial Park in Marshall County, according to Greg Rossiter, spokesman for the company. Nike will lease H & M Construction Spec Building #1 for a warehouse and distribution center.
Nike selected Marshall County for several reasons, including its proximity to the company’s other facilities in the Memphis, TN, area, building availability, and access to talent, Rossiter said. “We expect to hire more than 250 people for jobs in the facility. We expect to begin operations in the springs of 2020.”
District 5 supervisor Ronnie Joe Bennett said Marshall County had not been in frequent communication with Nike but knew the company was looking at Chickasaw Trail. “This will mean many more jobs and increased tax revenues for the county. We’ve got one of the best locations in the country right here,” he said. District 1 supervisor Charles Terry welcomes Nike to the Marshall County family. “It’s just another major corporation seeing the potential of Marshall County. We are proud to have them.”
Justin Hall, Executive Director of the Marshall County Industrial Development Authority, said, “Marshall County has put itself in a competitive position to be an attraction to both large- and small-scale industrial users. Due to a great transportation sector in the county and our having an infrastructure system in place, Marshall County is poised to continue an upward trajectory for economic development for decades to come.”
This announcement comes on the heels of the closing of Nike’s distribution center at 8400 Winchester Road in February, a facility that opened 31 years ago and was Nike’s first facility in Memphis. This warehouse and distribution center in Marshall County will be the company’s sixth in the area.