Supply chain co. plans $10M expansion in Pulaski

The Patton Logistics Group, a U.S. supply chain company, plans to expand with a $10 million, 100,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility in Pulaski County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday.

This is the company’s second expansion in four years in Pulaski County and will allow Patton Logistics Group to expand its customer base across the Southeast, according to a news release. The project is expected to create 25 jobs.

In 2020, Patton Logistics Group built a 250,000-square-foot logistics center in the New River Valley Commerce Park. The next year, the company expanded the warehouse by an additional 100,000 square feet and built a new trucking operations and maintenance center.

“2025 marks the fifth anniversary of our expansion into Pulaski County, Virginia,” Steve Patton, the company’s president, said in a statement.  “What started out in 2020 as a speculative real estate investment and a potential expansion of our logistics company into Southwest Virginia has turned into a significant supply chain solution for many of our clients.”

A family-owned company with headquarters in Pennsylvania, the Patton Logistics Group is made up of three affiliate companies that employ 1,000 people. It has operations in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and North Carolina.

Watsontown Trucking, the original of the three businesses, operates a fleet of 525 trucks and 1,500 trailers, with a workforce of over 600. Patton Logistics was founded in 2013 to provide transportation brokerage and third-party logistics services for Watsontown Trucking’s expanding customer base. In 2015, Patton Warehousing was formed. It manages 5.2 million square feet of warehouse space.

The new facility will be located on approximately 20 additional acres within the New River Valley Commerce Park, owned by Virginia’s First Regional Industrial Facility Authority.

Youngkin approved a $100,000 grant from the Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund to assist Pulaski County with the project. Patton Logistics Group will also receive services through VEDP’s Virginia Jobs Investment Program, which provides services and funding for employee recruitment and training to companies creating jobs.

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with Pulaski County, Virginia’s First Regional Industrial Facility Authority and Onward New River Valley to secure the expansion. Maryland, North Carolina and Pennsylvania also competed for the project.

“This $10 million investment not only reinforces the company’s confidence in the commonwealth’s strategic location and world-class logistics infrastructure, but it also creates new jobs and economic opportunity for hardworking Virginians in the New River Valley,” Youngkin said in a statement.