DAWSONVILLE - Gold Creek Foods, LLC of Dawsonville signed a letter of intent this week to purchase the Mohawk Industries plant in Dahlonega in order to expand its food operations.
Gold Creek Foods is a subsidiary of privately-held Agora, Inc., also of Dawsonville.
The 340,000 square feet building was marketed by the Lumpkin County Development Authority since Mohawk ceased its carpet fiber production at the site in June 2008.
Exact terms of the intended purchase were not disclosed; the property was listed at $3.5 million.
Mark A. Sosebee is the CEO and co-founder of Gold Creek Foods, LLC, a poultry further processing company founded in 2003. The company produces specialty food products to restaurant, retail, institutional and grocery customers. Sosebee, a twenty-year veteran of the industry, currently employs more than 600 at its facility in Dawsonville and views the acquisition as a natural expansion of their business.
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