Harold Food Company, a locally owned food processing plant with national, regional and local accounts, had outgrown its facilities and needed to be located more conveniently to interstate highways for delivery of its products. Clary Architects, Inc. was selected and contracted by the general contractor to provide the architectural and engineering services for this 50,000 square foot processing plant which features freezers, coolers, cooking and food preparation areas as well as raw material and finished product storage. This was a design/build relationship with Frank H. Conner, Inc. who served as our client.

The project was particularly challenging as is any food processing facility because of the involvement of local, state and federal agencies regulating the processing and distribution of food to the public. Full plans and the construction in process had to be reviewed at each step along the way to comply with rigid requirements assuring cleanliness and sanitation.

Features of the project included refrigerated interior dock space with ten truck dock slips and doors provides receipt of raw materials and shipping of processed food under cover in environmentally controlled conditions, electrified parking stations in the parking lot for refrigerated trucks that were evening-loaded for early morning deliveries and several levels of refrigeration for storage of in-coming raw materials as well as finished products ready for distribution and delivery.

The general contractor was Frank H. Conner Company. The construction cost was $2,000,000.