With a permit issued April 29, Gildan Activewear Inc. is expanding in NorthPort Logistics Center to fully occupy the more than 872,000-square-foot building at 11530 New Berlin Road in North Jacksonville.
It is a $732,735 construction project.
The city issued the permit for Jacksonville-based Tenant Contractors Inc. to make improvements to more than 445,000 square feet of space next to the almost other half of the building Gildan already uses as a distribution center.
Plans show the tenant area at 872,018 square feet.
Gildan already uses 424,249 square feet, which includes office space. It will occupy another 447,769 square feet of space.
AR Architecture LLC of Boca Raton is the architect.
EQT Exeter of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, paid $55.3 million for the property in November 2020. The warehouse was developed in 2009 on about 77 acres, 2.5 miles from the JaxPort Blount Island Marine Terminal.
Colliers Senior Vice President Guy Preston and associate Tanner Lee represented Gildan and worked directly with EQT Exeter.
Gildan Activewear is based in Montreal with about 30 company-owned manufacturing plants globally.
GildanDistribution.com says the company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of apparel, with more than three decades of developing a large-scale manufacturing base.
Gildan makes and markets basic apparel under brands for men, women, boys and girls. Its primary product categories include activewear tops and bottoms, socks and underwear.
GildanCorp.com says its products are sold in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America to wholesale distributors, screenprinters or embellishers, as well as to retailers and directly to consumers, primarily through e-commerce platforms.
The products it makes and sells are marketed under company brands, including Gildan, American Apparel, Comfort Colors, Gildan Hammer, GoldToe and Peds.
Gildan also sells sock products under the Under Armour brand through a licensing agreement for exclusive distribution in the United States and Canada.
It also makes and supplies products for global athletic and lifestyle brands, as well as to retail customers who market the products under their brands.
The company has three U.S. distribution centers. They are in Jacksonville, Eden, North Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina.
Its manufacturing operations are in Central America, the Caribbean Basin, North America and Bangladesh. It has eight yarn-spinning facilities in North Carolina.
In March 2018, Gildan Activewear Inc. announced the opening of its Jacksonville distribution center “as part of an expansion of our distribution capacity and capabilities to support future growth across many of our brands.”
A spokesperson said in 2018 that Gildan operates a network of owned and third-party contracted distribution facilities “and the Jacksonville location will be part of that network.”