Moving company to take over Williams Sonoma facility, plans 75 jobs

West Palm Beach-based Good Greek Moving & Storage is about to handle a special relocation: its own. 

The company is moving from its facility on Joanne Kearney Boulevard in Tampa to a bigger warehouse and office space in Plant City, a move it says will require 75 employees now and more in the next year or so. Its new facility is a 60,000-square-foot flex space at the Central Florida Commerce Center, a 72-acre business park on County Line Road in Plant City, next to Lakeland and just south of Interstate 4. The space had been leased to kitchenware and home furnishing company Williams Sonoma since it opened in 2018. 

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Good Greek Founder and CEO Spero Georgedakis says the move into a larger facility near several other giant distribution and warehouse spaces is a sign of the company’s maturity and growth. “We are right down the road from Publix,” Georgedakis says in an interview with the Business Observer. “Now we are playing with the big boys.” 

In addition to the Plant City move, scheduled for Aug. 1, Good Greek also plans to enter Orlando and the surrounding Gainesville, Space Coast, and First Coast markets, according to a statement. All the expansions combined will lead the company to hire 200-300 people over the next year or two, Georgedakis says, in positions in the warehouse, truck driving, customer service and more.  

Notably, the move within Hillsborough County comes only some three years after it first opened in the market. That fits, considering how bullish Georgedakis is on Tampa Bay. For one, he recently bought a condo in the area, and plans to spend more time here. He also sees the business market as more ripe for growth in the region than on what he calls the oversaturated east coast.

“This is Miami 15 or 20 years ago,” he says. “We are seeing a boom here and a lot of opportunities for business to grow. It’s a big city, but I don’t think it’s reached its potential, not by a long shot.” 

Good Greek is the official mover of seven Florida professional and collegiate sports teams including the  Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Rays, and Tampa Bay Rowdies. The company, with connected entities such as says Good Greek Realty, Good Greek Insurance, Good Greek Lending, Good Greek Auto-Transport and Good Greek Junk Removal, says it aims to “transform the entire relocation process into a streamlined and coordinated one-stop-shop approach.”