A Yanfeng interior is pictured in this company image.The Chinese automotive supplier, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, is leasing 231,000 square feet in a Chattanooga warehouse owned by Tennessee Enterprises as part of the company’s plastic molding equipment distribution to the nearby Volkswagen assembly plant.
The company plans to hire 325 employees for the new venture.
The Binswanger real estate agency in Atlanta handled the leasing of the single-story facility, which features 14-foot-high ceilings. The building at 7463 Bonnyshire Drive was built in 1998 and was expanded in 2007 and again in 2014.
The site is less than a mile away from VW’s assembly plant in the Enterprise South Industrial Park, where the German auto maker assembles Passats.