COLD STORAGE FACILITIES
High Performance Environments
DESIGNING AND BUILDING FACILITIES THAT ALIGN INFRASTRUCTURE, EQUIPMENT, AND OPERATION
Epstein is a trusted partner for 17 of the top 20 food & beverage companies.
This reputation in industries like food & beverage manufacturing, processing, and distribution stems from Epstein’s award-winning industrial designs and cutting-edge creative construction solutions tailored for GMP, USDA, and temperature-controlled facilities.
Epstein encapsulates years of proven industry knowledge, expertise, and innovative thinking, setting a new standard in food processing and cold storage construction from concept to completion.
Seaboard Triumph Foods
SIOUX CITY, IOWA
GLOBAL REACH, LOCAL EXPERTISE
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Daily’s Premium Meats Bacon Plant
ST. JOSEPH MISSOURI
This plant focuses on producing sliced-toorder naturally hardwood smoked bacon and will employ over 200 people when capacity is reached. The Daily’s plant also includes approximately 22,000 square feet of refrigerated storage and coolers ranging in temperature from 34 degrees to a -10 degree freezer. The 15,000 square foot office portion of the plant includes reception, workstations, private offices, conference rooms, a client demonstration kitchen as well as an employee welfare area.
Epstein is currently working on an expansion of this plant.
PROJECT SIZE
115,000 Square Feet
SERVICES
Design-Build
Prestage Farms Pork Processing
EAGLE
GROVE, IOWA
Facility
This facility, located on a 155-acre site and was designed to process approximately 600 million pounds of pork annually. The site consists of the primary processing facility that includes office spaces and several outbuildings, including a guard-house, rendering facility, and waste water treatment facility (all north of the main building). As part of this project, Epstein’s architects and engineers were asked to design 82,103 square feet of refrigerated storage.
PROJECT SIZE
650,000 Square Feet
SERVICES
Design-Build
Testa Produce Refrigerated Distribution Center
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
The 12.86-acre project includes 20,000 square feet of Class A offi ce space and a distribution center containing a 7,600 square foot 0° freezer, 24,700 square feet of cooler space, approximately 39,000 square feet of dry warehouse and 40 truck dock positions on two refrigerated cross docks. This building is one of the most sustainable industrial facilities of its kind and the fi rst LEED-NC Platinum Refrigerated Distribution Facility.
PROJECT SIZE
91,300 Square Feet
SERVICES
Architecture Design
Civil Engineering
LEED / Sustainability Design
Alpina Foods Yogurt Processing Facility
BATAVIA, NEW YORK
The facility provides enough space for an estimated 55 employees when expanded to its fullest capacity and was designed in compliance with both FDA and USDA regulations The production portion of the building consists of receiving areas, a production core, a packaging component, a laboratory and warehousing and distribution functions. The employee office and amenity spaces include locker rooms, a break room, a front lobby, and an office component.
PROJECT SIZE
40,000 Square Feet
SERVICES
Design-Build
Albertsons Dry Storage & Freezer Expansion
MELROSE PARK, ILLINOIS
Epstein provided full-service architectural, engineering and construction management services for a freezer expansion and 38-foot clear height roof raising for the existing dry storage warehouse.
PROJECT SIZE
786,000 Square Feet
SERCICES
Design-Build
Wholesome Farms Protein Processing Plant
FREMONT, NEBRASKA
Epstein served as the design-builder for Wholestone Farms after completing a multiyear master plan to modernize and rebuild an existing protein processing plant. The new plant involved a boiler plant replacement, snap chill, new rendering & wastewater pre-treatment building, state-of-the-art cut floor, automated packaging, cold storage, and office expansion.
EPSTEIN’S ROLE
Design-Builder
PROJECT SIZE
1,000,000 Square Feet
FACILITY
Cut Floor
Packaging
Cold Storage
Office
Winco Foods Grocery Distribution Center
BOISE, IDAHO
The facility sits on an 80-acre site, the new full-line grocery distribution center consists of 393,000 square feet of dry warehouse and 238,000 square feet of refrigerated space in addition to offices, employee amenity areas and other support spaces. Outbuildings include a dispatch and truck maintenance building and a truck return center with truck wash. A re-fueling system for the Winco owned tractors and trucks was installed as part of the project. The system included two 20,000 gallon double wall self-contained fuel tanks holding two different blends of diesel fuel.
PROJECT SIZE
766,000 Square Feet
SERVICES
Design-Build
Newly Weds Foods Production Plant
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
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