The former Goodyear Industrial site in Gadsden has been leased to a global clean energy services company.

According to Gadsden Mayor Craig Ford, Phoenix Gadsden Industrial Investors LLC, an affiliate of Milwaukee-based Phoenix Investors, LLC, has reached a major deal to lease the 2.9 million-square-foot former Goodyear industrial site in Gadsden to Takkion, a global renewable energy logistics company.

Once the largest tire producing plant in the world, the Gadsden Goodyear plant closed in 2020. Phoenix bought the property in late 2022.

“This deal takes an unoccupied building and fills it with a tenant from one of the fastest-growing industrial sectors in the world. Having a logistics company like Takkion in Gadsden will put us in the center of distribution for the entire renewable energy industry throughout the southeast.”
Mayor Craig Ford

The company leasing the site is Wyoming-based Takkion, an industry leader in clean energy services.

The Gadsden facility will be used as a storage and handling hub for renewable energy materials—primarily solar panels— destined for clean energy projects across the country.

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