ATLANTA — The auto parts retailer Advance Auto Parts will close more than 500 stores over the next three years, executives revealed this week in an earnings report.
The plan, outlined during a meeting with shareholders, would take about three years. It would include closing more than 500 retail locations, as well as four distribution centers. About 204 independent store locations would also leave the franchise, meaning they would lose the Advance Auto Parts branding and become independent.
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It's not been announced specifically where stores will close, and which stores would separate branding but remain open independently -- but the auto parts retail chain currently has more than 250 stores in Georgia.
At the start of 2024, Advance Auto Parts had 4,786 stores across the U.S. Representatives declined to provide a list of stores that would be part of the mass closings, pointing instead to the publicly available investor data released as part of the earnings call.
Here's a look:
Advance Auto Parts stores in metro Atlanta & north Georgia
You can take a look at full list of Advance Auto Parts' 259 Georgia stores at the company store locator page.
Here's an overview of some north Georgia & metro Atlanta locations. Again, no closings of specific locations have been announced at this time:
- Acworth (2 -- 4840 Baker Grove Rd. NW; 5741 Bells Ferry Rd.)
- Adairsville (20 Eagle Pkwy.)
- Alpharetta (3 -- 5596 Atlanta Hwy.; 10825 State Bridge Rd.; 731 N. Main St.)
- Athens (3 -- 332 North Ave.; 4280 Lexington Rd.; 1880 W. Broad St.)
- Atlanta (9 -- 1344 Metropolitan Pkwy. SW; 2025 Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy. NW; 1395 Moreland Ave. SE; 1667 Howell Mill Rd. NW; 2171 Cheshire Bridge Rd. NE; 1190 Memorial Dr. SE; 170 Cleveland Ave.; 2129 Campbellton Rd. SW; 6521 Roswell Rd.)
- Austell (10156 Veterans Memorial Hwy. SW)
- Bethlehem (915 Loganville Hwy.)
- Blue Ridge (230 Progress Cir.)
- Bogart (4440 Atlanta Hwy.)
- Braselton (16 Sunrise Bend Ct.)
- Bremen (1521 Alabama Ave. S)
- Brookhaven (3426 Clairmont Rd. NE)
- Buford (2 - 4955 Lanier Islands Pkwy.; 2744 Hamilton Mill Rd.)
- Calhoun (1117 S. Wall St.)
- Canton (3 -- 6225 Hickory Flat Hwy.; 8030 Cumming Hwy,; 1751 Marietta Hwy.)
- Carrollton (417 Bankhead Hwy.)
- Cartersville (3 -- 774 West Ave.; 915 Joe Frank Harris Pkwy. SE; 1444 Joe Frank Harris Pkwy. SE)
- Cedartown (904 N. Main St.)
- Chamblee (2 -- 3611 Chamblee Tucker Rd.; 5475 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.)
- Chickamauga (13147 N. Highway 27)
- Clayton (696 Highway 441 S)
- Cleveland (381 Donald E. Truman Pkwy.)
- College Park (2 -- 6100 Old National Hwy.; 5621 Riverdale Rd.)
- Commerce (543 S. Elm St.)
- Conyers (2 -- 2021 Flat Shoals Rd. SE; 1668 Highway 20 NE)
- Cornelia (109 Habersham Hills Cir.)
- Covington (2 -- 5145 Highway 278 NW; 5252 Highway 20 S)
- Cumming (4 -- 281 Atlanta Rd.; 1625 Buford Hwy.; 3427 Keith Bridge Rd.; 1645 Peachtree Pkwy.)
- Dacula (2600 Winder Hwy.)
- Dahlonega (50 Pinetree Way)
- Dallas (8721 Dallas Acworth Hwy.)
- Dalton (3 -- 205 Nashville St.; 1130 N. Glenwood Ave.; 1005 S. Thornton Ave.)
- Dawsonville (45 Bethel Dr.)
- Decatur (5 -- 2090 Candler Rd.; 4794 Flat Shoals Pkwy.; 4734 Memorial Dr.; 2253 Lawrenceville Hwy.; 3980 Covington Hwy.)
- Doraville (5800 Buford Hwy. NE)
- Douglasville (3 -- 2191 Fairburn Rd.-Hwy. 92; 5835 Stewart Pkwy.; 8350 Duncan St.)
- Duluth (3795 Buford Hwy.)
- East Ellijay (74 Craig St.)
- Eatonton (104 S. Oak St.)
- Ellenwood (91 Fairview Rd.)
- Fairburn (5280 Hwy. 92)
- Fayetteville (295 Glynn St. S)
- Flowery Branch (2 -- 7341 Spout Springs Rd.; 4022 Winder Hwy.)
- Forest Park (4592 Jonesboro Rd.)
- Forsyth (123 N. Lee St.)
- Fort Oglethorpe (565 Battlefield Pkwy.)
- Gainesville (3 -- 2446 Limestone Pkwy.; 2316 Browns Bridge Rd.; 651 Banks St.)
- Grayson (2425 Loganville Hwy.)
- Griffin (2 -- 310 W. Taylor St.; 201 Vineyard Rd.)
- Hartwell (580 E. Franklin St.)
- Hiram (5747 Wendy Bagwell Pkwy.)
- Jackson (749 E. 3rd St.)
- Jasper (71 Whitfield Dr.)
- Jefferson (1714 Old Pendergrass Rd.)
- Jonesboro ( 2 -- 8725 Tara Blvd.; 1289 Spur 138)
- Kennesaw (2 -- 1660 N. Roberts Rd. NW; 3221 Cobb Pkwy. NW)
- LaGrange (2 -- 1027 Hogansville Rd.; 426 New Franklin Rd.)
- Lawrenceville (5 -- 802 Buford Dr.; 1093 Duluth Hwy.; 1614 Lawrenceville Hwy.; 2930 Five Forks Trickum Rd.; 1455 Pleasant Hill Rd.)
- Lilburn (3 -- 4730 Stone Mountain Hwy.; 4865 Lawrenceville Hwy. NW; 3965 Lawrenceville Hwy. NW)
- Lithonia (2 -- 2235 Panola Rd.; 7522 Covington Hwy.)
- Locust Grove (4999 Bill Gardner Pkwy.)
- Loganville (4358 Atlanta Hwy.)
- Lovejoy (11140 Tara Blvd.)
- Mableton (730 Veterans Memorial Hwy. SW)
- Madison (1710 Eatonton Rd.)
- Manchester (404 5th Ave.)
- Marietta (8 -- 180 N. Fairground St. NE; 4489 Canton Rd.; 111 Cobb Pkwy. N; 1420 S. Cobb Dr. SE; 2520 Sandy Plains Rd.; 4195 Roswell Rd.; 10 Windy Hill Rd. SW; 2588 Powder Springs Rd. SW)
- McDonough (3 -- 2044 Highway 155 N; 250 Keys Ferry St.; 1515 Highway 20 W)
- Monroe (1120 W. Spring St.)
- Morrow (5720 Jonesboro Rd.)
- Newnan (3 -- 3219 Highway 34 E.; 41 Bullsboro Dr.; 164 Temple Ave.)
- Norcross (4 -- 5820 Jimmy Carter Blvd.; 5695 Buford Hwy.; 5185 Jimmy Carter Blvd.; 3730 Holcomb Bridge Rd.)
- Palmetto (9155 Roosevelt Hwy.)
- Peachtree City (2008 Highway 54)
- Powder Springs (3 -- 6395 Hiram Douglasville Hwy.; 1068 Richard D. Sailors Pkwy.; 5155 Dallas Hwy.)
- Ringgold (5072 Alabama Hwy.)
- Riverdale (7000 Highway 85)
- Rockmart (120 Felton Dr.)
- Rome (2 -- 940 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. SE; 2205 Shorter Ave. SW)
- Roswell (1155 Alpharetta St.)
- Royston (840 Franklin Springs St.)
- Smyrna (2 -- 3330 S. Cobb Dr. SE; 4729 S. Cobb Dr. SE)
- Snellville (2 -- 2247 Main St. E; 3345 Centerville Hwy.)
- Stockbridge (5412 N. Henry Blvd.)
- Stone Mountain (4845 Rockbridge Rd.)
- Sugar Hill (4675 Nelson Brogdon Blvd.)
- Summerville (10723 Commerce St.)
- Suwanee (3379 Lawrenceville Suwanee Rd.)
- Tallapoosa (2300 US Highway 78)
- Thomaston (712 N. Church St.)
- Toccoa (1485 Big A Rd.)
- Trenton (5408 Highway 136)
- Tucker (4085 Lawrenceville Hwy.)
- Tyrone (1540 Highway 74 N)
- Union City (4548 Jonesboro Rd.)
- Villa Rica (620 W. Bankhead Hwy.)
- Winder (215 N. Broad St.)
- Woodstock (2 -- 150 Village Ctr. E; 5204 Holly Springs Pkwy.)