When do refrigerated food processing companies need to lease freezer warehouse space?

A refrigerated food manufacturing or refrigerated food processing plant primarily is involved in making refrigerated or frozen foods that require both non refrigerated and refrigerated ingredients. Most of the products that are made in refrigerated food processing plants typically are directly shipped within a matter of days from their refrigerated building. However, from time to time there is not enough freezer warehouse space or cooler warehouse space in their refrigerated facility to hold all their refrigerated ingredients or the refrigerated or frozen foods. Then these companies will need to lease cooler warehouse space or to lease freezer warehouse space somewhere near their food manufacturing plant.

Whenever refrigeration is required for ingredients or finished products there will be only a limited number of refrigerated buildings in the area that are available for lease. The refrigerated food processing plant will have to also consider the distance from their facility. The further away from the facility the more expensive it will be to transport the product back and forth from the manufacturing facility. The ideal situation would be to lease a freezer warehouse room, within a larger existing freezer warehouse building. This way the owner of the building would already be operating the existing facility which would include operating and maintaining the building’s refrigeration system.

An example would be the freezer warehouse space available for lease at 7235 Vicksburg Pike in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The 8,000 square-foot refrigerated warehouse space is one room with one single door for entry and exit. The freezer room is completely pallet racked with 1,380 pallet slot positions and capable of -15° storage temperatures. Therefore a food company would need to do is to rent the room and uses the Ft. Wayne, Indiana freezer warehouse space whenever needed.

Hawk Distribution Services, LLC www.hawkds.com has 28 years of experience as refrigerated building real estate brokers. Please contact Jim Cronin at 314-994-0577 or e-mail J.Cronin@hawkds.com to discuss your company's refrigerated building real estate needs.