Jason Bunce works at the site of Cloverleaf Cold Storage's expansion project.
Justin Wan, Sioux City Journal
Doug Stewart, plant manager of Cloverleaf Cold Storage, talks about the $18 million warehouse expansion at the company's Bridgeport industrial area site. The project is nearing completion, company officials said last week.
Justin Wan, Sioux City Journal
The current loading dock at Cloverleaf Cold Storage in Sioux City. New loading docks are included in the company's $18 million expansion project at the site.
Justin Wan, Sioux City Journal
Construction is expected to be completed this summer on a $18 million expansion of Cloverleaf Cold Storage's warehouse complex in Sioux City's Bridgeport area, shown above in a Feb. 22 photo. The project is the latest in a series of additions the Sioux City-based company has completed across the United States.
Justin Wan, Sioux City Journal
Cloverleaf Cold Storage's original warehouse in downtown Sioux City is shown in 1962.
SIOUX CITY | Cloverleaf Cold Storage's $18 million expansion of its Sioux City warehouse facility is the latest in a series of additions the company has completed across the United States.
Begun last summer and expected to be completed this summer, the 140,000-square-foot addition to the company's warehouse facility in Sioux City's Bridgeport industrial area comes on the heels of recently completed projects in Illinois, Minnesota and Ohio.
The Sioux City expansion demonstrates Cloverleaf's confidence in the local and regional food industry, company official Adam Feiges said.
"This is an illustration of our faith in the growth and strength in the food processing industry in Northwest Iowa and the upper Midwest," Feiges said.
The expansion of the Sioux City facility adds warehouse space and new loading docks, increasing warehouse space by 50 percent and boosting the storage capacity by 18,000 pallet positions to a total of 48,000 pallet positions. To get an idea of how much product that is, Feiges said, it would be enough to fill 22,000 truckloads with product.
"Construction is proceeding on schedule, and we're very excited to see the facility opening," Feiges said.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority Board in July approved $405,000 in state tax incentives to help fund the expansion project, which should lead to the creation of eight jobs, Feiges said.
The assistance, through the IEDA's High-Quality Jobs program, includes a refund of states sales, service and use taxes related to construction.
Officials said at the time of the IEDA application that the warehouse expansion was necessary to store a growing output from Cloverleaf’s local Farmers Produce plant, which has seen continuous growth since 1988. Farmers Produce is a subsidiary of Cloverleaf that provides custom short-run food processing services to the protein production industry.
Cloverleaf, family-owned and operated, was founded in 1952 and currently operates both ambient and refrigerated food-grade warehouses in 17 locations in eight states in the central and eastern United States. In 1962, Cloverleaf built one of the first modern panel-and-rack warehouse buildings in Sioux City. According to trade publications, Cloverleaf is the 11th largest cold-storage warehouse company in the world and the eighth largest in North America.
The company is "actively seeking opportunities" to expand other facilities, Feiges said.
Doug Stewart, plant manager of Cloverleaf Cold Storage, talks about the $18 million warehouse expansion at the company's Bridgeport industrial area site. The project is nearing completion, company officials said last week.
The current loading dock at Cloverleaf Cold Storage in Sioux City. New loading docks are included in the company's $18 million expansion project at the site.
Construction is expected to be completed this summer on a $18 million expansion of Cloverleaf Cold Storage's warehouse complex in Sioux City's Bridgeport area, shown above in a Feb. 22 photo. The project is the latest in a series of additions the Sioux City-based company has completed across the United States.
