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by Bonnie Hunter (EV) industry. As one of the largest single foot manufacturing plants that sit on 283
job-creating investments in Georgia’s history, acres along I-85. SK Battery America’s new
The Jackson County Area’s prime location facilities will be the first electric vehicle battery
offers proximity to the Atlanta market and the site is set to employ 2,000 people by factories in the nation.
the ability to reach 80% of the U.S. market 2025. SK Battery America plans to invest
within a standard two-day drive. The regional $1.67 billion to build two 1.2 million-square- Southeast Toyota Distributors opened in
workforce is more than 776,000 strong, and
there is plenty of room to build and grow. Commerce in the summer of 1989 and
For companies seeking industrial real estate, Over the last several years, processed the first Camry assembled in
Jackson County offers an incredible business the Jackson County Area has North America. Today, Southeast Toyota
climate that is attracting multi-million and Distributors is the world’s largest independent
-billion-dollar projects along with thousands seen a series of investment distributor of Toyotas. New Toyotas arrive
of jobs. in Commerce by rail, get fitted with Toyota
announcements and groundbreaking parts and accessories, and are processed
In the spring of 2019, SK Battery America, developments that are reshaping before distribution to showrooms in northern
a division of the Korean-based company the industrial and employment Georgia, the Carolinas, and northern Alabama.
SK Innovation, broke ground on a factory The company is in the process of expanding
in the City of Commerce that will produce landscape of the region. its Jackson County operation, developing
lithium-ion batteries for the Electric Vehicle a $90 million, 350,000 square-foot campus

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