FedEx Ground to Build Package Sorting Hub in Guilford County FedEx Ground will build a new southeast sort facility in Guilford County, NC. FedEx has purchased a 125-acre site along I-40 in the Triad Business Park and will construct a 400,000 square-foot facility capable of sorting 45,000 packages per hour at full build out. The FedEx Ground facility will open in 2011 with about 500 full- and part-time employees, of which about 150 will be new positions. Additionally, independent contractors at opening are projected to be about 250, with 150 of them being newly created for the hub operation. The existing employees and independent contractors will come from the two existing Piedmont Triad facilities moving into the hub. Approximately four years after opening, the company projects that about 260 full- and part-time employees as well as about 200 independent contractor opportunities will be added. The company will invest about $100 million in land, building construction, and new machinery and equipment. The announcement last month of the Guilford project came as FedEx Express was preparing to open a new $300-million mid-Atlantic express hub at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro in the summer of 2009. When both facilities are fully operational, FedEx will directly employ close to 2,000 locally. Kirk Perkins, chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, commented on the significance of the FedEx Ground decision. “It’s an exciting time for Guilford County and especially notable with the state of the US economy to have that kind of investment ...
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