Postal Service to build massive center near airport

Local office of national developer to oversee construction

Email | Print By Geert De Lombaerde

The U.S. Postal Service plans to build a 626,000-square-foot processing and distribution center near Nashville International Airport.

The new Nashville center will rise at Old Murfreesboro Pike and Faircloth Road on land owned by the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. Panattoni Development Co. will oversee construction and is working with the USPS on traffic studies of the area.

The new facility is likely to employ more than 1,500 people, though it’s not clear how many of those will be new positions or if the planned center will replace the USPS’ operations on the north side of the airport. Calls to USPS and Panattoni officials seeking details were not returned this afternoon.

Earlier today, the USPS said it will move its downtown Milwaukee processing center to a large new site southeast of that city.

The USPS news is Panattoni’s second big local deal of late. The company last month bought 125 acres of land in Wilson County to add to its warehouse portfolio there.