Epstein Cold Storage Experience

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

Capital Area Food Bank WASHINGTON, DC

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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 Facility EAGLE GROVE, IOWA

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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