WATERTOWN — Planners of small-scale slaughterhouses in Potsdam and Oswegatchie should be afraid of being overwhelmed by a larger meat plant being developed in the Watertown area, contends the developer of that plant.
Developer Michael E. Lundy, who is evaluating multiple sites in the Watertown area for his proposed 42,000-square-foot U.S. Department of Agriculture-certified facility, said he believes the proposed smaller plants in St. Lawrence County would have a challenging time competing with the larger facility.
“If I were in their shoes, I would be awfully nervous to build a small plant while knowing there’s an extremely large plant in the works,” said the West Carthage developer, CEO of Lundy Development Corp. “It’s just simple economics. If we’re doing between 100 and 400 animals a day, we’re going to dictate the market prices … I don’t think their plants would have much of an impact on us. But if ours comes to fruition, we could have a tremendous impact on them.”
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