Burlington adds 4M sq ft

Burlington Stores is adding roughly 4 million square feet of warehouse space through 2028, anchored by new distribution centers in Ellabell, Georgia, and Buckeye, Arizona. (wwd.com) The Georgia facility, near Savannah, is set to open this spring and will be Burlington’s largest distribution center at 2,057,000 square feet. (wwd.com) Burlington broke ground on the Buckeye site on April 8, and the nearly 2 million-square-foot Arizona facility is expected to open in 2028. (supplychaindive.com) (marketscreener.com) Together, the two projects will expand Burlington’s supply-chain footprint by 50%, according to WWD. (wwd.com) The retailer is using the new sites to move more inventory through its newest and most automated buildings. Chief financial officer Kristin Wolfe said on a March 5 earnings call that Burlington expects to reshape its distribution footprint over time around its most efficient centers. (wwd.com) (supplychaindive.com) The Arizona building is designed as Burlington’s most advanced facility yet, with automated sorting systems, upgraded workstations and custom software meant to speed daily operations. (supplychaindive.com) The Georgia site is built for volume too: WWD reported 155 dock doors, five drive-in dock doors and 26 miles of interior conveyors. (wwd.com) Burlington said it expects to spend about $290 million on supply-chain initiatives in 2026, largely for the Georgia opening and the start of construction in Arizona. (wwd.com) (supplychaindive.com) Wolfe said a new distribution center typically takes about two years to ramp up fully, so the savings Burlington expects from faster processing and lower freight costs will build over time rather than arrive all at once. (wwd.com) For Burlington, the warehouse push is tied to a larger store-growth plan: the company has said it is building toward 2,000 stores nationwide. (msn.com)