Southern Advantage

What Is in Store for 2024

Joe Hollingsworth is fond of saying, “you can’t sell any corn flakes if you don’t have them on the shelf!” It is a call to keep up the inventory to meet the demand. The demand side has been a roller coaster for the last few years. In spite of the

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Will Batteries Get Us There?

October 11, 2023 Last Hotline we wrote about the coming way of electric vehicles and the significant charging infrastructure needed for recharging their batteries. At the same time there, is a push away from other fossil fuels to convert more and more equipment to be fully electric and to forego

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Make Way For The EV’s

The US Southeast has for decades been the choice destination for automotive assembly plants. The industry is undergoing unprecedented changes as it migrates to electric drivetrain vehicles. This shift in vehicle architecture has led to a change in manufacturing needs for the automotive assembly supply chain. This is great news

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Cool Idea

For years we have been hearing that manufacturers are chasing labor and more and more manufacturers are choosing where to locate their new factories in locations they can find people to show up and produce their products. Employers are competing to attract those hard-working folks to join their team and

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Something Old and Something New

Back in 2013, the City of Cookeville Tennessee reached out to the Hollingsworth Companies to respond to a request for proposal for Ficosa, a Tier 1 automotive manufacturer looking to consolidate three facilities into a single more efficient 250,000 square foot Build-to-Suit facility with a robotic paint booth and crane

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Demand vs Supply

Supply and Demand are like two heavyweight boxers that continue to trade punches round after round. For a few rounds, you think Supply has the upper hand and will easily win the match, then Demand comes roaring back and makes Supply look weak and headed for certain defeat. So, which

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An End to the Insanity

Amazon has been growing its fulfilment center footprint across the nation at a staggering rate. In 2021, the already enormous footprint expanded by 30%. Amazon’s ambitious building program has been sucking up all of the available supply for warehouse-related construction items like dock doors, dock levelers and if you happen

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Order Ahead…Way Ahead!

We have been in the industrial building business a long time. We have seen some ups and downs in commodity prices as supply and demand get out of whack for a period until supply increases or demand decreases to balance things out and prices get back to normal. These are

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Field of Dreams for Industrial

“If you build it, they will come” is the famous line from the movie Field of Dreams. That is a risky slogan to live by. But, it is in fact the business model for The Hollingsworth Companies Industrial Building Program. In the last few decades, it has gotten increasingly more

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Some Things Are The Same, and Some Are Different!

The Hollingsworth Companies has privately owned industrial parks for the last two decades, and we plan for the future with pre-permitted and pre-graded foundation-ready lots to be able to deliver buildings quickly and reduce the risks associated with a construction project. In 2016, we planned a pair of buildings in

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