E.W. Grobbel Sons Inc. plans to invest $33 million to build a food warehousing building near its Eastern Market headquarters.
The project by the famed Detroit-based corned beef meat processor includes 158,000 square feet of new construction on Dequindre Street near Mack Avenue and 300 new jobs. The project is expected to be supported by $10.6 million in incentives, including $1 million in grants to support the new jobs, $4.9 million in local tax capture, $3.3 million in a state tax capture and $2.4 million in tax capture from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, according to a memo from the Michigan Economic Development Corp.
The tax captures will occur over 12 and 27 years, respectively. The Michigan Strategic Fund approved the grants Tuesday, with the other approvals expected in the coming weeks.
The brownfield build will take place in Eastern Market's Innovation Zone and qualifies for the incentives due to its location in a disadvantaged area of Detroit.
The new storage facility is expected to include coolers, freezers, shipping and receiving docks, as well as office space. The project will also include more than 94,00 square feet of infrastructure improvements including installation of new sidewalks, curbs and storm sewers.
Jason Grobbel, president of the 137-year-old company, told Crain's in September of the plan to secure more space to support its growing business.
Grobbel told Crain's that Will Branch, founder and co-CEO of Corridor Sausage LLC, was leading the deal as part of his new role with the company. The Eastern Market sausage maker inked a distribution deal with E.W. Grobbel to expand its customer reach to the entire U.S. and Branch joined Grobbel as its director of culinary development, working with Grobbel's son Justin, a food scientist, to develop the partially packaged solutions for the company.
"We would work with typically chain of restaurants and supermarkets to help develop custom value-added products," Grobbel told Crain's in September. "An example is custom ingredients a restaurant would typically make from scratch. Restaurants, right now, are challenged with employees in the kitchen and are looking for ways to streamline. So we can make some of the things they used to and they can finish them off. Saving them a few steps and operate more efficiently."
The MEDC memo indicated the project would support new business lines such as "meat snacks, retail sliced meats, shelf stable pickled produce, and healthy vegan snack bites."
E.W. Grobbel has been in growth mode for several years, acquiring Sy Ginsberg's famed Detroit corned beef company United Meat and Deli Inc. in 2017 and Topor's Pickle Co. in 2018.
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