Preferred sets July 2015 date to finish N. America's largest cold storage facility in Richland, WA
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SCOM] September 23, 2014
Preferred Freezer Services (PFS) is in the midst of building the company's first cold storage unit in the Pacific Northwest. Upon completion, the Richland, Washington-based facility will be the largest public refrigerated warehouse in North America and the largest single such facility to be built at one time in the world.
The construction of the new facility broke ground on May 12th, 2014 and is expected to be completed by July 2015. The completed facility will stand at 120 feet tall. It will cover 455,000 square feet with 313,000 square feet dedicated to automated freezer space. The Richland facility will add over 40 million cubic feet of cold storage capacity to PFS’s continually expanding footprint. The facility is strategically located near an existing railroad spur.
The freezer in the facility will be automated, featuring robotic cranes rather than the human operated equipment relied upon by traditional warehouses...
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