The company invested more than $200 million in the new 325,000-sq.-ft. Italian meats and charcuterie production facility.

A M King provided property consulting services in addition to designing and building the mega-facility, which includes cold storage, ripening, processing and packaging space.

Changing consumer purchasing habits indicate an increase in the construction of distribution centers and new facilities outfitted for automation.

This year’s plant construction survey hit the highest number of projects ever recorded.

Barvecue, producers of wood-smoked, plant-based proteins, has opened the world's largest plant-based smokehouse. The 10,000 square foot production facility, called Carolina Smokehouse, opens for production with an initial capacity of making 800,000 pounds of Barvecue a year and expects to employ 15 team members as production ramps up.

HempRise has opened its 100,000-square-foot operation in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The plant has the capacity to produce 10 metric tons of hemp biomass per day, which is equivalent to approximately 8 million pounds of biomass per year. The company selected Gray to design and build the facility.

Plant openings and expansions in food and beverage manufacturing for July 2021.