180,000-sq. ft. State-of-the-Art Meat Storage and Packing Facility Completed in Detroit's Eastern Market District Brings New Jobs to Detroit and a Revitalized Park for Neighborhood Residents

FORT WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Cold storage construction company, Tippmann Innovation of Fort Wayne, IN completes a new meat processing and cold storage facility for Wolverine Packing Co. The 180,000-sq. ft. warehouse provides Wolverine with its fifth processing plant and a second freezer with capacity to store 20,000 pallets.

In 2016, Wolverine owners Jim and Jay Bonahoom reached out to Tippmann Innovation for help in designing and building a new facility. When given the option of building a new warehouse outside of Detroit, the Bonahooms decided to continue investing in the city they love and have been committed to for over 80 years. The family-owned company began as a lamb and veal packer in Detroit's historic market district in 1937. Since then they've grown into one of the nation's largest full-faceted protein distribution companies. Today they produce ground beef, value-added meat products, and fresh lamb and veal. Wolverine Packing now serves customers in all 50 states and in many countries around the world. 

The state-of-the-art warehouse expands the market district footprint to the north and sits on a reclaimed residential neighborhood, previously home to thirty-two housing structures buried underneath a deteriorating public park. As part of the brownfield contract with the City of Detroit, Wolverine provided funds to redevelop approximately four acres of the property into a revitalized park for families in the surrounding neighborhood. Wolverine Packing needed to find a contractor with experience in cold storage construction as well experience working with brownfield sites to construct their new plant. Their search resulted in Tippmann Innovation. 

"What made Tippmann Innovation unique was not only their experience building cold storage and processing facilities, but also their ability to complete the civil engineering and brownfield assessments while communicating with the state's environmental department to ensure everything was up to code. It was a huge asset to have a contractor with a complete understanding of brownfield laws and the experience to build a world-class facility." - Jay Bonahoom

Projects like Wolverine Packing Co. are big wins for not only company owners, but also the communities in which they reside. New cold storage and processing facilities is a sign of long-term economic growth as their tenants typically agree to leases extending 15-20 years. Wolverine's new plant brings in new jobs and a revitalized neighborhood park, both signs of new life coming back to the east side. 

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About Tippmann Innovation: Tippmann Innovation is an award-winning specialty, industrial cold storage builder that develops buildings around a business plan, ensuring that an investment becomes a profit center. Tippmann Innovation utilizes time-honed expertise and advanced technology solutions to create efficient buildings that scale with a business, and are designed to maximize profitability through fully integrating operations and supply chain, by design. Tippmann Innovation provides a full suite of cold storage construction services, including master site planning and operations guidance. Tippmann Innovation's technologies include the Patented QF+ In-Rack freezing and thawing system, coupled with the T2™ spacer that creates the fastest system available.  Tippmann Innovation has offices in Indiana, Illinois, and Florida.

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