Wolfspeed’s $2.5 billion John Palmour Manufacturing Center, part of its $5 billion total investment in the Siler City, North Carolina project, is among the largest projects to break ground in 2023.
Rendering courtesy of Wolfspeed
ENR Southeast is conducting its annual survey of the largest projects to begin the previous calendar year, the top 25 of which will be ranked in the March 25 edition of the magazine.
For the second year in a row, manufacturing facilities topped the list of the most expensive projects to start in 2023, with two projects tied for the provisional top spot.
At $2.5 billion each, the John Palmour Manufacturing Center for Silicon Carbide in Siler City, N.C., and the Hyundai/SK EV battery plant at the Bartow Center in Cartersville, Ga., round out the preliminary list.
The Siler City project is part of semiconductor maker Wolfspeed’s total investment of $5 billion to build two chip manufacturing plants, including the manufacturing center that is at the top of this year’s preliminary list, while the Hyundai project comes to the fore. project in last year’s ranking, the $5 billion Hyundai US EV Megaplant in Ellabell, Ga.
These projects, as well as the $2 billion Vinfast electric vehicle plant in New Hill, North Carolina, show the high level of investment in electric vehicle manufacturing in the Southeast in recent years.
The final ENR Southeast Top Starts ranking will include all of the largest projects in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Puerto Rico, drawing data from a variety of sources including Dodge Data & Analytics, news reports of ENR and data sent directly. by project teams.
The preliminary ranking of 20 projects is shown below, still subject to change as more survey responses come in and more information about last year’s project starts is reviewed. Are you part of a start-up project in 2023 that could qualify? If so, please contact me, Derek Lacey, at laceyd@enr.com.
- $2.5 Billion John Palmour Silicon Carbide Manufacturing Center, Siler City, North Carolina – Whiting-Turner Contracting
- $2.5 billion Hyundai/SK EV battery plant at Bartow Center, Cartersville, Ga. – Hyundai Engineering
- $2 billion VinFast Electric Vehicle Plant, New Hill, North Carolina – Barnhill Contracting Co.
- Hanwha Qcells $1.15 billion solar panel manufacturing plant in Highland, White, Ga. – Gray Construction, Inc.
- $1.08 Billion Men’s Correctional Facility, Elmore County, Elmore, Alabama – Caddell Construction Company, Inc.
- $1.04 billion Mobile Launcher 2 MOD Yard, Kennedy Space Center, Florida – Bechtel Development Co.
- $892.9 million Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Bed Tower, Charlotte, North Carolina – DPR Construction, Inc.
- $700M BMW High Voltage Battery Assembly Facility, N/A – Evans General Contractors
- Phase 1 of Facebook’s $642 million Stanton Springs data center, Social Circle, Ga. – Holder Construction Co.
- $606.87 million GA/DOT: I-285/I-20 East Interchange P3, Atlanta, Ga. – N/A
- $600 million DC Blox data center, Douglasville, Ga. – Evans General Contractors
- $600 million FL/DOT: First Coast Expressway New St. Johns River Bridge, St. Augustine, Fla. – Johnson Bros. Corp., A Southland Company
- $542 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, Jacksonville, Florida – Matrix Service Co.
- $500 million 1072 W Peachtree Apartment/Office Tower, Atlanta, Ga. – Turner Construction Co.
- $485 million Prospect Lake Clean Water Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Kiewit Infrastructure
- $450M Pendry – One Ashley Condo/Hotel Tower/Parking Garage/Pool, Tampa, Florida – Moss & Associates (fka Peter Brown)
- $450M Prosperity Lakes Subdivision, Parrish, Florida – N/A
- Auberge South Beach Hotel-Shore Club Condo-Pool $430M, Miami Beach, Florida – Coastal Construction
- $405 Million BMW AESC Components Manufacturing Facility, Florence, SC – Lamar Johnson Collaboration
- $400M 317 N Federal Mixed-Use Retail Apartments, Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Moss & Associates LLC
