Nebraska's Local Pride Beef-Packing Plant Reopening Soon

By the end of 2013, livestock owners in Nebraska and surrounding states will have one more packing plant option — this one being in Gordon, Neb., where a former plant will be re-opened.

The plant, known as Local Pride, was operated as a kosher plant by a New York Jewish family from June 2006 until 2008 when plant owners were convicted of fraud in their packing plant operation located in Postville, Iowa.

The city of Gordon and First Bank Business Capital in St. Louis, Mo., acquired the Gordon facility and equipment at a 2009 trustee sale.

The city of Gordon had a lien on the land because former owners didn’t meet the terms of a $500,000 state economic development grant.

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