By Eric Curl
Jan. 7, 2024 – Wynn Cowan, who runs Supply Chain Logistics in Savannah, describes himself as a “developer by accident” because he builds his company’s own buildings.
Cowan is also the co-owner of the Savannah Ghost Pirates and had initially planned to build a practice rink for the minor league hockey team along Fort Argyle Road, west of Interstate 95, fronting a 323-acre site where he is also planning a warehouse development. The hockey rink is now expected to be built in Port Wentworth in conjunction with the city and he is considering what to do with the Fort Argyle site.
Cowan said during an interview Friday that he is considering building housing at the site that could possibly accommodate employees of the warehouses set to be constructed nearby, saving them from long commutes and on fuel costs. That is still about six months away from being determined, however, he said.
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Meanwhile, he said athletic fields that were planned for the site along Fort Argyle are still part of the plans.
“We’re doing traffic studies for that to see if they need to make any changes,” he said.
The warehouse development is moving forward as well after the Savannah City Council voted to rezone the site in June 2022. The rezoning changed the parcel from Agricultural to Community-Business in the 59-acre front portion, Light Industrial Transition in the 109-acre middle section, and Light – Industrial to the back 156-acres.
Cowan’s company recently acquired the property and promptly sold the back half, with the more intense industrial classification, to Atlanta-based Core5 Industrial Partners, who he said can construct about two million square feet of warehouse space. Cowan said he will be building probably five smaller 75,000-100,000 square-foot buildings on the middle portion of the site that he retained.
“This has been in the works for two years so now we’re getting to the permitting process on building,” Cowan said.
He said the amount of forest and wetlands, about 100 acres, on the site would provide 500 feet of buffer and block the view of the warehouses, if he did end up developing housing on the front portion of the site.
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct the spelling of Cowan’s name.
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