This month, Northwest Exterminating will open its 16th service center in Columbus, GA. We have been serving this area from our LaGrange office for the past two years and we’re looking forward to putting some roots down in the Columbus area. We were recently featured in an article that ran in the Ledger-Enquirer. Check it out below:
Businesses outside Columbus look to take advantage of BRAC boom
By BEN [email protected]
Companies outside Columbus also are searching for business opportunities from the Base Realignment and Closure process at Fort Benning.
Northwest Exterminating, a Marietta, Ga.-based company, plans to open an office this month on 54th Street in Columbus, more than six months before the Armor School completes its move from Fort Knox, Ky., to Fort Benning.
“We don’t open our office until we can show it can be self sustainable,” said Gail Jones, supervisor of Realtor Relations and Market Development for Northwest Exterminating. “I’m sure that BRAC and Fort Benning have a lot to do with that.”
The location of the exterminating business and recent announcements of new restaurants are a trend in general growth, said Gary Jones, executive vice president of Economic Development and Military Affairs at the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
“What we are seeing is general growth that you associate with an influx of people that are primarily going to be in need of the service sector,” Gary Jones said.
The area can anticipate some growth in the service sector along with growth at Fort Benning, Gary Jones said.
“I think we can anticipate either expansion of existing or growth of new service sector business that will parallel the increase we expect from Base Realignment and Closure and general growth at Fort Benning,” he said.
Gail Jones said the company will open its 16th location on 54th Street this month after serving the city from its LaGrange, Ga., location for the last two years. Celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, the company specializes in pretreatment for new residential home construction.