Wine, liquor distributor expands Dixiana center

A wine and liquor distributor is finishing a $10 million expansion of its center in the Dixiana area as part of a deal to add at least 54 jobs.

The 129,500-square-foot addition will increase the size of Republic National Distributing Co.’s facility by nearly two-thirds when is is complete this fall.

Republic is growing “locally and beyond,” South Carolina company operations director Steve Platte said in a statement.

The workforce at the center in an industrial area near I-26 and I-77 will total 500 once the project is complete, company officials said. Its space will be nearly 336,000 square feet.

Republic is getting a property tax break from Lexington County as part of its expansion.

County Council members approved the tax break in December 2013 under which the company pays a fixed fee on its expansion in exchange for adding jobs.

The deal adds five years to the 20-year agreement made when the center opened in 2010. Such deals are common when companies with large payrolls expand.

Fees paid by Republic since its original 206,000 square-foot center opened total nearly $989,000, according to county tax records.

This story was originally published June 5, 2015 at 4:12 PM.