The new $30 million facility, according to the firm, will complement VersaCold facilities in British Columbia and California.
The $1.2 billion a year VersaCold, the second-largest cold storage firm in the world, with more than 120 temperature controlled facilities worldwide, predicts that the facility will be operating a near full capacity when it opens the first half of the facility in July. A second half of the facility is planned to open in mid-August. VersaCold officials declined to name customers signed on to the new facility.
The facility is being built by Burlington, Washington-based Fisher & Sons, which has built more than 100 cold storage facilities since 1954.
The project was facilitated by the Tacoma-Pierce County Economic Development Board, which worked as a liaison between VersaCold, the City Of Tacoma, and Pierce County to acquire the property and expedite the permitting process.
