Cold Storage
EarthFresh
As a retrofit project, our design transformed the EarthFresh facility into Class-A office space and a state-of-the-art food handling and distribution center. The design optimizes space and functionality to support high-volume operations and specialty packaging processes.
[Atlanta, GA]
Retrofit a Facility for Two Operations at Once
EarthFresh needed to expand their existing 137,290-square-foot building into a facility that could support two very different functions at the same time - Class-A office space and a high-volume food handling and distribution operation - without compromising either.
Purpose-Built Space for Every Function
We expanded the facility with a 96,184-square-foot buildout, adding 32,276 square feet of box-in-box cooler storage, alongside a 43,011-square-foot production area. Ten cold dock positions and six HSRU doors support high-volume shipping and receiving, while a mezzanine and catwalks installed in the production area support food cleaning and re-packaging. A compressed air room, a clean room for specialty packaging, and seven 12' rail canopies round out the facility's specialty processing capabilities - alongside a dedicated 9,955-square-foot Class-A office and locker room area for the EarthFresh team.
A Facility Built for High-Volume, Specialty Operations
The completed retrofit gives EarthFresh a facility engineered for both scale and precision - from cooled shipping and receiving to specialty packaging - supporting its position as a market leader with the largest stock of exclusive potato varieties in North America.
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