Rivian’s biggest bet is a field in Georgia. After pausing the project in 2024 to conserve cash, the EV maker restarted site work at Stanton Springs North in August 2025, and vertical construction, the foundations and building shells, is set to begin in 2026. When both phases are done, the plant is built to turn out up to 400,000 electric vehicles a year.
Project Scope
The Social Circle site, about an hour east of Atlanta, will run to roughly 9 million square feet across two phases and is expected to support around 7,500 long-term jobs by 2030. It’s where Rivian plans to build its next-generation R2 SUV and smaller R3 crossover, the more affordable models the company is counting on to reach real volume. Rivian has put the investment at $5 billion and finalized a U.S. Department of Energy loan of up to $6.6 billion to help finance the factory, on top of one of the largest state incentive packages in Georgia history. Vehicle production is targeted for 2028.
Why It Matters
Georgia has become the unofficial capital of the Southeast EV build-out. Rivian’s plant sits alongside Hyundai’s Metaplant an hour to the southeast and, across the state line, Ford’s BlueOval City in Tennessee, a cluster that’s reshaping the region’s industrial labor market and its power demand. The restart also reads as a signal. After a stretch of EV plant delays and outright cancellations nationwide, a 9-million-square-foot factory moving back toward vertical construction says the capital is still flowing, just more carefully than it did in 2022.
Project Team & Details
| Developer | Rivian Automotive |
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| Owner / Client | Rivian Automotive |
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| Status | Under Construction |
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| Funding Source | Mixed |
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