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.
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