Historic ag warehouses to make way for expanded AgSouth corporate HQ

City also approves future JC Lewis Ford site at bypass

Seen from the back on Cherry Street, these century-old warehouses, which once held cotton or other agricultural products, are to be torn down to make room from AgSouth Farm Credits expanded headquarters. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff

AgSouth Warehouses BACK — Seen from the back on Cherry Street, these century-old warehouses, which once held cotton or other agricultural products, are to be torn down to make room from AgSouth Farm Credits expanded headquarters. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff

Tuesday evening actions by Statesboro City Council clear the way for major business developments by AgSouth Farm Credit and J.C. Lewis Ford. AgSouth, a farmer-owned financial services cooperative with 24 branches and $1.7 billion in assets, plans to consolidate its three traditional headquarters, two of which are in Orangeburg and Spartanburg, South Carolina, to its Statesboro headquarters. The council gave unanimous approval for tearing down three masonry warehouses, which are more than 100 years old and within Statesboro’s nationally registered, historic East Vine Street Warehouse and Depot District, to allow AgSouth to expand behind its two existing buildings on South Main Street, creating a corporate campus with a park-like central greenspace facing Vine.

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