Tucker is home to a number of distribution and logistics facilities for companies both large and small. One of the fastest growing of those companies is Georgia Furniture Mart. With a brand new 165,000 square foot distribution center located on Greer Circle, the company is pushing out high quality furnishings to customers across metro Atlanta and the southeast.
“We’re delivering and receiving furniture five days a week in the vicinity of 800 pieces per day…somedays up to 1,000,” explained owner and president Mike Hall. “Come March, we expect to start off about 60 to 65 percent higher than that.”
Those projections are due to the expanding nature of the business. Hall says he plans to expand to four metro Atlanta stores, including a location in Kennesaw next year. To accommodate the additional inventory, he’s planning to expand his distribution center here in Tucker to 300,000 square feet as soon as late 2021.
What started out in 1986 as a store that sold waterbeds, Georgia Furniture Mart has reinvented itself over the years and is seeing that willingness to adapt pay off. Even in the uncertainty of today’s economy, Hall says business could not be better.
“We’re extremely blessed to be in an industry related to the home right now,” Hall explains. “At the start of the year we suffered, but because people are staying home right now…there’s a lot of expendable income that’s not being spent. They’re really focused on improving their home.” As for why he decided to build his massive distribution facility here in Tucker, Hall says it helped negate the biggest drawback of doing business in metro Atlanta: the traffic.
“In the home delivery business, the way Atlanta has grown, in order to get commercial industrial distribution space in a new building, you have to go out on the northeast side of town to Braselton and on the northwest side of town you’d have to go out almost to Canton. When you get into the city close in, there’s really no industrial land available anymore. What’s attractive about Tucker is that when you load your trucks for delivery in the morning…you can access 78 or access 285 to cut around and go to 20 and not spend a tremendous amount of time on the road. We all know how bad traffic is in Atlanta, so the location is just absolutely premier.”
Thanks in large part to their distribution capabilities, Tucker has become home to one of the fastest growing and most successful furniture companies in the United States.
Check out Georgia Furniture Mart online at gafurnituremart.com or visit their showroom in Norcross.
