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PREMIER TO OCCUPY HALF OF BURLESON, TEXAS DC

Yukon Venture Partners (Yukon.ventures), Austin, Texas and Saxum Real Estate (saxumre.com), Summit, N.J., expect an October 2021 completion of their 403,000-square-foot cold storage and DC at High-Point Business Park in Burleson, Texas. Premier Refrigerated Warehouse (premierrefrigerated.com), Fort Worth, Texas, will occupy about half of the $50 million facility, with another 200,000 square feet available for lease.

Yukon Venture Partners was formed in 2018 by Marty Khait and Oliver Davis-Urman to develop and finance cold storage facilities. Saxum is a real estate investment and development firm.

“This journey began over eight years ago,” said Ron Buford, president and CEO of Premier Refrigerated Warehouse, commenting on the groundbreaking. “My company is currently in a building in Fort Worth that was built in 1954, so we are very excited to stand here and see dirt turning for our new facility.”

“We look forward to becoming a corporate citizen of Burleson,” added Buford. “We are also excited that one of our largest customers, McLane Classic Foods, is our neighbor across the street in Burleson.”

TITAN COLD AND PLRS PARTNER IN FLORIDA

Titan Cold Storage (titancold.com), Bakersfield, Calif., has entered a strategic partnership with Port Logistics Refrigerated Service (plrs.com), a cold storage and port terminal operations facility on Hooker’s Point at the Port Tampa Bay. “PLRS Powered By Titan Cold” is positioned to serve Central Florida and the Southeast, with expansion capabilities into the Midwest by truck and CSX rail service.

PLRS is a 135,000-square-foot facility designed for handling large volumes of imported and exported cargo, specializing in fresh produce, proteins, and other perishable food and beverage commodities. Regional imports and exports are being shipped to and from Mexico, Costa Rica, and other Central American countries as well as domestic U.S. ports such as Brownsville, Texas.

The facility’s temperature-controlled warehouse has separate refrigerated/frozen rooms with more than 6,300 gravity-fed pallet positions, 152 reefer plugs, and a fumigation building. PLRS Powered By Titan Cold is a full-service, flexible, and independent self-contained port terminal operation situated on 13.7 acres along Berth 219, hosting two high-speed Gottwald cranes and its own Radiation Portal Monitor.

Titan Cold’s facility has an on-site customs inspection area, dedicated refrigerated fumigation services, and customs lab, with the ability to expand to add ripening rooms and repacking services. With a channel depth of 41 feet, it can simultaneously accommodate two large ships and barges while offering quick access to CSX railways and the I-75/275 and I-4 transportation corridor.

COOLTRAX, AEM TEAM UP ON ALL-ELECTRIC TRU

Cooltrax (cooltrax.com), Roswell, Ga., is partnering with Phoenix-based Advanced Energy Machines (aem.com) to give fleets real-time visibility of temperatures and related operating information from the AEM All-Electric transport refrigeration unit (TRU).

AEM’s completely electric, solar-powered TRU leverages proprietary battery and solar technologies for refrigerated trailers. Its electric equivalent for diesel-powered TRUs delivers ample charging hours to support the needs of fleets with demanding requirements, the company says. With the Cooltrax integration, fleets gain real-time telemetry and exception management for battery levels, power state, compartment temperatures, door events and more when they adopt the next-generation technology from AEM.

As state and federal laws for diesel emissions continue to evolve, the transportation industry is looking for solutions to significantly reduce their carbon footprint. CARB laws in California, for example, will eventually require fleets to eliminate all diesel emissions.

TI COLD DEVELOPING NEW DC IN HOUSTON

Ti Cold Development (ticold.com), Melbourne, Fla., is building a 303,920-square-foot cold storage facility in Houston. It will feature more than 42,000 pallet positions, a 55-foot-deep refrigerated dock and -10F to +60F, fully convertible refrigerated/frozen space. The facility is available for leasing and build-to-suit opportunities. Ti Cold Development is a division of Tippmann Innovation, which has offices in Melbourne, Fla., and Fort Wayne, Ind.

TYSON DEPLOYS MIRROR EYE

Springdale, Ark.-based Tyson Foods is deploying the MirrorEye Camera Monitor System from Stoneridge Inc. (Stoneridge.com), Novi, Mich., on 55 of its trucks, with plans for more. The system replaces a truck’s “elephant ear” side-view mirrors with integrated cameras and interior monitors, providing greater visibility to drivers, including visibility to the truck’s blind spots, and during nighttime driving and in inclement weather.