Highwoods Wins 350,000-SF Federal Contract

ATLANTA-In one of the largest industrial contracts this year in Georgia, the federal National Archives and Records Administration has selected Highwoods Properties Inc. of Raleigh, NC to build a 350,000-sf warehouse that will have 1.75 million cubic feet for text storage and 35,000 sf for training and conference rooms, a public research room and office space to accommodate NARA staffers, contractors, visitors and patrons.

The site is at SouthPark in Clayton County, about 20 miles south of Downtown. This will be NARA’s second storage facility in Clayton County serving the Southeastern states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and various government agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service.

The value of the build-to-suit contract wasn’t disclosed in a prepared statement from Highwoods. But metro area industrial brokers and construction estimators tell GlobeSt.com the high-tech complex will probably have a hard construction cost of about $100 per sf or a total $35 million.