Step onto the ProFish warehouse floor and you’ll spot area fishermen dropping off Styrofoam boxes of still-squirming seafood and longtime workers shoveling ice or properly bleeding fish. But what’s impossible to see with the naked eye is the sheer size of ProFish’s operations.
Partners Greg Casten and Tim Lydon opened the seafood wholesaler in 1988, and the Ivy City company now boasts more than $60 million in annual sales. In more tangible terms, ProFish sells about 100,000 pounds of salmon a week, offers more than 1,500 products, and services 3,000 customers from New York to Virginia Beach—all in about 14,000 square feet.
But that’s about to change. Ivy City Partners, which includes ProFish, has been awarded a city contract to develop the historic Alexander Crummell School, which will enable the company to stay put and more than double its square footage.
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