July 22, 2012

After plans by one company to build a beef harvesting, processing and cold storage facility fell through, the city of Tulare in south-central California still hopes to attract a meat processing plant, local media reported.

Western Pacific Meat Packing had hoped to build a facility that would have employed 200 workers but could not secure financing to buy the land, The Visalia Times-Delta reported.

The Tulare Planning Commission on Monday (July 16) granted a one-year extension on a permit for a food processing plant in hopes of attracting another buyer for the more-than-60-acre property near the city's waste water treatment plant and farmland, the paper reported. Tulare Planning and Building Director Mark Kielty said he was not aware of another investor interested in the project.