Academy Sports + Outdoors to Add Tennessee DC 

Academy, Ltd. (d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors) will open a distribution center in Cookeville, Tenn. to support its continued expansion. Academy Sports + Outdoors will begin construction on the facility later this month with plans to become operational in early 2016.

The company is expected to hire approximately 700 associates over a five-year period with initial hiring to begin in Fall 2015. This will be the company’s third distribution center.

Academy Sports + Outdoors’ new distribution center will be over 1.6 million square feet on 200+ acres near the Highlands Industrial Business Park along I-40 on the west side of Cookeville. The future site is south of Old Stewart Road, north of Bob Gentry Road, and east of Mine Lick Creek Road.

Academy Sports + Outdoors currently operates nine stores in Tennessee with a tenth store planned to open this fall in Memphis. The company is headquartered in Katy, Texas with a distribution facility there as well as a second distribution center in Jeffersonville, Ga. in Twiggs County.