United States Cold Storage (USCS), Voorhees, New Jersey, USA is building a 3.5-million-cubic-foot refrigerated distribution center in Omaha, Nebraska.
USCS officials said the project will completely revitalize the company's existing 30th Street location, a rail-served site in the city's historic meat-packing district. The facility was first built in 1952 and has expanded once since then, in 1964.
Services will include product tempering and expedited blast freezing once the new building is completed in the second quarter of 2013. The finished building will house 16,300 pallet positions. Officials say the site has a build-out capacity of nine million cubic feet.
"We're determined to protect and grow our market share in the Midwest," said Dan Goodhard, USCS Omaha general manager. "We will accomplish this with a more energy-efficient building that also incorporates the latest security and food safety measures to protect our customers.
"Redeveloping this rail-served property provides the best economic model and keeps us in close proximity to many long-term customers," said Rod Noll, USCS vice president and area manager-West Region. "We also believe this modern facility will generate significant new business because no one has built a cold storage facility in Omaha during the past 30 years."
One of two strategic Omaha locations, the 30th Street warehouse handles boxed beef, sliced bacon, deli meats and steaks. It also serves area processors of breads, pastries, soups, potato products and even frozen novelties. In addition to refrigerated and frozen storage, it offers case picking, order assembly, blast freezing, export and rail shipping services (Union Pacific, BNSF).
