Mulberry, Arkansas: Compass Cold Storage cut the ribbon on a new cold store near Fort Smith in Mulberry, Arkansas.
The new site provides chilled and frozen storage for food wholesalers, retailers, and food manufacturing customers in central and northwest Arkansas. It is 142,160 square feet and has 18,500 pallet positions with QFM In-Rack Freezing System.
The store can maintain temperatures ranging from 40°F to -20°F. QFM In-Rack Freezing combines blast freezing and pallet racking abd can freeze pallets up to four times faster than traditional blast freezers with the ability to reduce energy consumption by as much as 50%.
Doug Bowen and Darren Winstead, owners of Compass Cold, said the opening marked the company’s completion of the first phase of a three-phase project to build a cold storage site in Mulberry.
Ti Cold built the new warehouse. “It has only been around a year from groundbreaking to grand opening which is good for almost any type of new build project, but for a commercial project of this magnitude that turnaround timeframe is nothing short of exceptional. We are so pleased with how this has come together,” Bowen said.
“We have already broken ground on phase two of the project with completion scheduled for early fall of this year. Completion of the second phase of the project is scheduled to be finished by late summer and will include additional freezer and dock space and will bring the project total to about $50m. An additional third phase is in the planning stage.”
Doug Bowen and Darren Winstead operate Compass Cold and also Doug’s Produce Trucking.
