Arcadia Cold’s ribbon cutting for its new 255,460-square-foot cold-storage facility at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center was an auspicious grand opening that was several years ahead of the company’s expansion plans in the Reno-Sparks market.

Arcadia Cold is a third-party logistics provider in the cold-storage industry that primarily supports perishable frozen and refrigerated foods. Its main customers are food manufacturers, grocery retailers and food service distributors, as well as fresh and frozen pet food suppliers. The company operates additional facilities across the USA.

The facility at TRIC is designed to serve a variety of customers. The building is divided into five separate storage chambers, any one of which can be chilled from negative -10 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

That is quite a unique attribute. It provides their customers the flexibility to move and store a variety of products.

With internal clear heights exceeding 50 feet, the building can accommodate 37,260 pallet positions due to the higher racking clearances that greatly increases internal storage space by allowing five to six tiers of pallet storage racking.

You get a lot of density per square foot for pallet positions within the internal footprint. “That kind of layout design also allows for a lot more labor productivity.

The additional height does require specialized forklifts and reach trucks that can extend up to that sixth level of the facility to pick orders for customer fulfillment. All forklift drivers and reach truck operators are required to undergo rigorous certification and training processes.

Arcadia plans to hire 75 employees within the first two years with an average salary of $30.87 per hour. The estimated total economic impact from the project over 10 years is just under $253 million, according to its application sent to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.

Reno is one of those locations where there are a large number of e-commerce firms, and that’s a reason why Arcadia Cold likes this area.

There are a lot of quality industrial warehouses in this region, and they are really bullish about this location. The customer pipeline they have already built is reflective of that - a lot of customers are really interested in coming out here.

Arcadia Cold also likes this area because it is positioned well next to Interstate 80 that supports east-westbound traffic across the United States. They also have the capability to deliver products into Northern California, Salt Lake City, Boise or points in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

There is increased need for modernized cold-storage facilities throughout the USA. The average age of many existing facilities is greater than 40 years and product handling and energy usage requirements have changed greatly over that time.

There is a general need for newer facilities to meet the product handling requirements of 2025 and beyond.