Our Commitment
Rooker is a privately owned company with a primary focus in real estate development, construction, management and asset management. We’ve developed over 500 sites spanning the last 57 years and have more than 60 million square feet of construction and development to our credit.
Since our original development project in 1968, Rooker has evolved into a true turn-key real estate development firm. We’ve grown by building relationships with our clients, employees and partners the old-fashioned way. By looking folks in the eye. Delivering on our promises. And providing honest value, enduring craftsmanship and responsible development of our communities’ land. We still believe a handshake is as good as a person’s word. And we know that trust, like money, has to be earned.
With Rooker, you will gain a partner who is committed to providing experienced personnel that can take your project from an idea to completion. A partner who will invest itself personally into your project. A partner that is one of the most experienced developers in the Southeast.
Allow us to deliver a facility that exceeds your expectations.
Our History
Built on a solid foundation, decades in the making.
1911
John Marian Rooker founds Southern Transfer Company in order to transport goods by horse and wagon from the rail depot to department stores in downtown Atlanta, GA.
1951
John's son, William A. Rooker, incorporates the Southern Bonded Warehouse company, transitioning the family business from transportation into warehousing.
1958
John W. Rooker & Associates is incorporated by William A. Rooker. William’s son, Jack Rooker, evolved that company into a real estate development firm beginning in the 1960s.
1970
Jack Rooker completes his first industrial real estate development project, a build-to-suit facility in Atlanta, GA, for the Nestle Company.
1985
Rooker develops and constructs 74 projects over a 24 month period, including buildings for Coca-Cola and Weyerhaeuser.
1990
Jack Rooker receives the SIOR Developer’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
1991
Rooker completes the largest project in its first 30 years of business, a 625,000-SF build-to-suit for Ford Motor Co. in Atlanta, GA. The building was rail-served and expandable to 1,000,000-SF.
1995
NAIOP names Rooker its Industrial Development Firm of the Year.
2000
Rooker completes projects on behalf of Keebler, Petsmart, Home Depot, Johnson Controls, and Eckerd Drugs.
2008
Rooker develops its first government facility of note, the National Detector Dog Training Center in Newnan, GA.
2011
John Rooker is named CEO of Rooker Co.
2014
Rooker purchases Shannon Mall, a vacant 90-acre shopping mall near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In the two years that followed this purchase, Rooker developed a 987,840-SF industrial facility and a 251,500 SF purpose-built film studio on the site.
2015
NAIOP names Rooker its Industrial Deal of the Year
2017
Rooker purchases a 50-acre industrial development site in Spartanburg, SC, marking its first spec industrial investment in the state of South Carolina.
2019
Rooker purchases 650 acres along I-85 in Jackson County, GA, to develop a 6 million SF industrial park.
2021
Rooker purchases 765 acres in Savannah, GA to develop Seaport 16 Trade Center, a Class-A industrial park that is planned for 11 buildings and 7,000,000 SF.
2024
Rooker delivers an 86,000-SF government office build-to-suit to a confidential GSA customer in Columbia, SC.
2025
Rooker fully stabilizes its first speculative industrial project in the Tampa, Florida market, a 187,000 SF building in the North Tampa 75 park in Wesley Chapel, FL.