Rivian Stanton Springs North EV Plant

Rivian’s long-delayed Georgia bet is back in motion. The electric-vehicle maker is building a $5 billion manufacturing campus at Stanton Springs North, east of Atlanta, spanning roughly 9 million square feet across 1,800 acres. Construction mobilizes through 2026 with vehicle production targeted for 2028, after the company paused and then restarted the project to sharpen its capacity plan.

Project Scope

Rivian picked Clayco to build the plant, with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as design architect and Jacobs as engineer of record. The facility is being delivered in two phases and is designed for a production capacity that aims to top 400,000 vehicles a year. To capture its full state incentive package, Rivian must invest $5 billion and employ 7,500 workers at an average salary of $56,000 by the end of 2028.

A 9-million-square-foot plant on greenfield land is as much an earthwork and logistics project as a building one. Site prep alone across 1,800 acres sets the schedule before the first structure goes vertical.

Why It Matters

This is one of the largest economic-development projects in Georgia’s history, and its stop-start path makes it a case study in how fragile even mega-incentivized manufacturing can be. Rivian’s restart signals renewed confidence in U.S. EV demand at a moment when the broader market has wobbled. For the region, the plant reshapes the local labor market, pulling thousands of skilled trades into a corridor between Atlanta and Athens. It also reflects the wider reshoring wave concentrating the biggest U.S. construction jobs in advanced manufacturing, where only a handful of contractors can build at this scale.

Project Team & Details