(Source: Norfolk Southern press release, March 26, 2019)
ATLANTA, Ga. — Norfolk Southern, joined by Georgia state and city leaders, today held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch construction of its new corporate headquarters building in Atlanta.
The headquarters site is in “Tech Square,” a hub of innovation, technology, and talent in the heart of Midtown Atlanta with close ties to Georgia Tech, a continual source of talent for Norfolk Southern’s management trainee program. In addition, with easy access to MARTA, highways in every direction, and a world-class airport, Norfolk Southern employees will be close to home, close to the Norfolk Southern rail network, and just a step from partners and customers in North America and across the globe.
Plans call for the building to be completed and occupied by Norfolk Southern in the third quarter of 2021.
Through Southern Railway and other predecessor railroads, Norfolk Southern traces its roots in Atlanta to the mid-1840s. Currently, more than 2,000 Norfolk Southern employees work in Midtown Atlanta at the company’s Peachtree Street operations center – about a mile from the new headquarters site. Around 500 employees work at the company’s Norfolk headquarters. Norfolk Southern’s migration to Atlanta already has begun, with another 300-plus dispatchers already relocated and in place at the company’s newly opened Network Operations Center. The first wave of Norfolk-based employees relocates in July, and the consolidation will complete when the new headquarters building is finished.
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