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Rendering of Ahold Delhaize USA's $860 million distribution facility in Burlington, North Carolina Image credit: Ahold Delhaize USA
Grocery retailer Ahold Delhaize USA (ADUSA) said Monday that it has officially broken ground on an $860 million distribution center in Burlington, North Carolina.
ADUSA, part of international food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is the parent company of a number of major grocery brands in the United States including Food Lion, The GIANT Company, Giant Food, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. The company said it is the largest grocery retail group on the U.S. East Coast and the fourth largest in the country.
The Burlington facility, according to the company, will support the Food Lion brand and others.
"This groundbreaking marks another exciting step forward in strengthening our supply chain network and ensuring we can serve our customers with the freshest products every day," said JJ Fleeman, CEO of ADUSA.
"We're proud to invest in North Carolina – one of our home states for nearly 70 years – and to continue building on our commitment to serving local customers and communities by providing access to nutritious and affordable options," Fleeman said.
This will be the company's fourth distribution center in North Carolina.
Leading construction, ADUSA said, is The Tippmann Group. The Indiana-based company specializes in the design, construction and operation of temperature-controlled food plant and cold storage warehouse facilities.
ADUSA said that German company WITRON will provide the distribution center's automated technology and integrated logistics solutions.
The facility, totaling more than one million square feet of fresh and frozen distribution capacity, ADUSA said, should be operational in 2029 and will help "modernize its supply chain and drive long-term growth for its U.S. brands."
"Today's groundbreaking underscores North Carolina's continued leadership in attracting transformative investments that create hundreds of good-paying jobs, strengthen supply chains, and support long-term economic growth," said Governor Josh Stein.
"Projects like this reinforce our state's reputation for our excellent workforce and as a premier destination for innovation, logistics, and opportunity," he said.
Back in October 2025, Gov. Stein said that the state would provide a performance-based grant of $250,000 for the project from the One North Carolina Fund contingent on ADUSA meeting job creation and capital investment targets.
In addition, local entities reportedly have committed more than $40 million of financial incentives to the project as well.
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