Start your engines! Summit Racing to Arlington

ARLINGTON – Summit Racing Equipment, a leading seller of performance auto parts and accessories, plans to build a big store and distribution center in south Arlington that will employ as many as 250 worker.

The facility, including a 32,000-sf superstore, will be on 48 acres at the southwest corner of I-20 and SH 360.

Construction is slated to begin fall 2016, with the distribution center expected to start shipping orders in the middle of 2017. The store would open shortly after.

According to an economic incentive package approved by Arlington City Council, Summit will invest $82 million to build a 700,000-sf facility. 

Summit agreed to employ at least 200 workers by Jan. 1, 2018, and 250 by Jan. 1, 2019.

The value of the tax rebate over seven years was estimated at $528,679.​