Agile Cold Storage, a diversified storage and logistics solutions company serving North American food manufacturers, processors and growers, announced it will invest $45.9 million to construct a new 150,000 square-foot automated cold storage facility in St. Tammany Parish.
The company estimates the project will create 100 direct new jobs with an average annual salary of approximately $53,000. Louisiana Economic Development estimates that the project will result in 95 indirect new jobs, for a total of 195 potential new jobs in the Southeast Region of the state.
Once operating, the company expects to transport approximately 100 containers of food shipments from its new Pearl River facility to the Port of New Orleans for export every week.
Following a land sale, the new cold storage facility will be built on 10 acres at the site of the 130-year-old historic St. Joe’s Brick Works, a family-owned brickmaking company. Construction is expected to start this month, with operations due to begin in the first quarter of 2025.
St. Tammany Corporation CEO Chris Masingill said the future home of Agile Cold Storage in Pearl River, near the nexus of Interstates 10, 12, and 59, is an ideal site for this project and further reinforces their message that St. Tammany is the best-positioned location in the Gulf South for significant logistics and distribution economic development projects.
