Category Archives: Food Industry

Food manufacturing, processing, and cold storage. Seafood, produce, poultry, beef/poultry, meals/meal kits, and food ingredients intended for grocery stores, restaurants, institutions, and consumers. Facilities with freezers, coolers, USDA processing areas, bakeries, floor drains, food safety testing labs, and wastewater interceptors.

Food Building Roundup 2008-04-10

untitled-1.jpgA 16,570 square foot building was leased to a company that prepares school lunches. The building was located at Alameda and 21st Street, and was formerly occupied by a seafood processing and packaging company which focused on shrimp products. Included in the long term lease was 2 cooler boxes, a 22 foot high freezer, and a large food processing room with washable walls and floor drains. The prior tenant relocated to a seafood building in the South Bay that was approximately 12,000 square feet in size. One broker coordinated the simultaneous transactions and the entire deal spaned several months.

An 18,000 square foot warehouse was leased to a Downtown Los Angeles produce company on Industrial Street. The building included an unusually high number of dock high loading positions for an older building: eleven. The produce company was attracted to the building for its proximity to the produce market ,the fact the building had 3 refrigerated coolers, and there was sufficient yard space to accomodate large 53 foot container trucks.

The following food buildings are available for occupancy lease and/or sale:

  • Marengo St- Cooler and freezer with dock high loading for a 10,000 SF facility. Forlease.
  • Main St- USDA food processing facility built in 1999 with 5000 SF freezer, 2500 SF cooler and 5000 SF processing room in 26,000 SF of improvements. Great for poultry, beef, seafood processors.
  • Anderson St- 11,000 SF building with freezers, coolers and truck high loading.
  • Industrial St- 23,000 SF building with 6000 SF freezer and 1200 SF cooler and 7 dock high spots.
  • 6th St- 23,000 SF concrete building with 3000 SF cooler and 1100 SF freezer, 16 truck high positions and 22 foot clear.
  • Alameda St- 15000 SF building with 8000 SF cooler and 4 dock high spots. Great location for produce distribution.
  • Alameda St- 16000 SF building with 4000 SF of coolers and freezers and processing room. 3 truck high spots.
  • Spring St- U.S.D.A. federal inspection facility for poultry and meat processing with coolers and freezers. 17000 SF building.
  • Triangle Dr- 23000 SF building, former commercial bakery with coolers, freezer and processing rooms.

Preferred Freezer Expands In Los Angeles And Vernon

freezer cooler building warehouse Los Angeles Vernon California 90023Preferred Freezer Services of Newark, NJ built and opened 8 new cold storage buildings in strategic locations throughout the USA in 2007.  Starting off this very busy year, Preferred Freezer Services opened the first of these warehouses on January 2nd in Los Angeles CA.  It is their 16th warehouse nationwide and 5th facility in Los Angeles.  This new, custom build warehouse will be known as Preferred Freezer Services Long Beach Freeway (LBF), an is located at 4901 Bandini Blvd., Vernon, CA. Nearby locations include:  Alameda Street and 52nd Street, and the Washington Blvd. freezer.  Next to the Washington Blvd facility, Los Angeles, they are building another freezer unit adjacent and east to the existing warehouse.  This latest warehouse should be completed in 2008.

Contessa frozen food plant – new “green” standard

contessa.JPGContessa Premium Foods offered a VIP sneak peek of its Green Cuisine Plant, the world’s first and largest environmentally responsible, LEED-certified frozen food manufacturing plant. The City of Commerce will rename the street where the plant is “Contessa Drive.”This is the first time the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification to a frozen-food manufacturing facility. The LEED rating system is the national standard for design, construction, and operation of green buildings. It recognizes five areas of environmental and human health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and selection of materials. Located in Los Angeles CA, the new plant is a 4 million-cubic-foot facility, costing more than $35 million, that will produce up to 150 million pounds of product the first year alone. The facility, its processes, and the product manufactured there will be known as Green Cuisine.

Largest refrigerated warehouses ranked

The International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW) in October released its annual listing of its top 20 North American member companies with the greatest gross capacity at their facilities. The combined space of these companies is more than 1.7 billion cubic feet. Company rankings with capacity in cubic feet are:

  1. AmeriCold Logistics, 415,989,001
  2. Atlas Cold Storage, 209,347,982
  3. Versacold Group, 206,058,661
  4. United States Cold Storage, 152,993,447
  5. Preferred Freezer Services, 152,982,511
  6. Interstate Warehousing, 63,670,368
  7. Burris Refrigerated Logistics, 58,133,995
  8. Total Logistic Control, 52,753,106
  9. Nordic Cold Storage, 51,722,100
  10. Cloverleaf Cold Storage, 48,982,883
  11. Columbia Colstor, 48,710,060
  12. Inland Cold Storage, 41,753,576
  13. Richmond Cold Storage Co, 40,486,491
  14. Henningsen Cold Storage, 37,600,574
  15. Frialsa Frigorificos, 33,458,847
  16. Hanson Logistics, 32,496,430
  17. Conestoga Cold Storage, 24,773,000
  18. Zero Mountain, 23,644,000
  19. Congbec Logistics, 22,500,000
  20. Interstate Cold Storage, 21,403,000

Total space: 1,739,460,032