curtis packing company- greensboro, nc (reduced size)

7/21/2019 Curtis Packing Company- Greensboro, NC (Reduced Size)

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Jill Hammergren

[email protected]

919-805-1061

Location: Curtis Packing Company

2416 Randolph Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27406
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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This is a former cooked sausage plant. It has 40,000 square feet of space. It is closed and

clean, and ready for sale or reuse, however there are a few items still in place that give it the

authenticity of a meat processing plant. The building sits on the northwest corner of Randolph

and Patton Avenues in Greensboro, NC. It faces S-SE.

Exterior:The exterior is red brick and has a few multiple levels. It sits at a corner in anindustrial area. The meat processing building sits across the street from the companys main

offices. Across the Patton Street is the City of Greensboros town services buildings, but the

entrance are far away from the plant side, and those are surrounded by fenced parking lots.

Behind and next to the back of the property (NE side) there are a meat rendering plant and a

chemical plant. Both of those buildings have noticeable humming of fans and processors, but

they are constant and appropriate to the surroundings since this is an industrial part of town.

Normal conversations are easily heard without having to raise voices.

Part of the property is separated by a two-lane paved street and then there are freight train

tracks. The tracks are probably 50-75 yards from the meat processing building, but they are on

the NW side of the building where there are three very large loading docks able to service

semi-trailers or flatbed trucks. The line is operated by Norfolk Southern. I talked with Robin

Chapman, PR for Norfolk Southern. There are two trains that come through this area its

actually one train that makes a roundtrip so two trains between 3am and 3pm. They cant be

more specific than that, but it does cross a public right of way, so they do blow the horn as they


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come through. While I was on site for 1.5-2 hours during that time frame, I never heard or saw

the train, so I am not sure how loudly you hear it inside the plant. Owner says that the train

was never heard when meat was being processed, but hes not sure what it would sound like

without the equipment on. (Robin said that it may be possible to narrow down the times on the

day of production.)

There is ample parking all around the plant and the property directly across Randolph, which is

owned by company. Access for equipment load-in would likely be best at loading dock inside

the metal fence on the NE back corner or the three loading docks on the NW back side of the

building or the smaller loading dock in the front SE corner of the building. You could put

generators on any of the loading dock areas. Expect to have a 200-500 cable run for those

depending on where your need to go inside the building.

The NE back part of the plant is surrounded by a very large gravel parking lot and metal

fencing. There is another loading dock inside the fencing and open air, yet covered

maintenance sheds and remnants from a metal livestock pen that was converted into a shedand roof added when the plant stopped being a kill house and moved to plant that did just

trimmings and mixings for cooked sausages in the late 1960s. There is an outside fluid

dispensary area, that is obviously dry since the plant is not operational at this time.

On the SE side of the building, there are three entrances- one with a five-step transom into the

front offices. There is a loading dock to left of that entrance that leads to the customer

reception area and then directly into the plant through some steel doors and to the right of the

main entrance there is a glass-fronted Quality Control Lab with a one-step brick transom.

Inside that lab, there is a stairwell that leads to the production floor.


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Interior:There are some Stainless Steel work rooms, tiled workspaces with exposed support

beams, sinks and hoses are on some of those support beams, sausage holding trees hang

from racks running through the plant; there are a couple of meat hooks hanging on a rack;

stainless steel coolers and cookers, smokers, a Hickory grinder and bags of hickory for

smoking, racks hanging from the ceilings, large metal vats and plastic containers used for raw

meat.

The floors are concrete. They are level with the exceptions of sloping toward in-floor drains.

There is one room that bricks for the flooring. Even though it has been cleaned, it is slightly

slippery from years of grease.

There is power throughout, but many rooms have fluorescent lighting and the bulbs arent

working, so those would need to be replaced. There are a few lights in the place that buzz very

loudly, so those would have to be replaced, too. Inside the plant is quiet, otherwise.

There are a few offices in the building, at the front entrance that are still used, but they areseparated from the plant by steel doors and by a reception area in the middle that isnt

currently used. There are power receptacles on support beams from hanging drop down

ceiling outlets. Most are 110/220 volts, but owner recommends having one of their

maintenance/electrician walk through and test power locations for you prior to production to

ensure that you have the sufficient power in all the right locations throughout the plant.

There is a small open elevator shaft that was used to bring up vats of meat trimmings. It still

works.

The quality control lab on the SE corner of the property has a glass front. It is left intact and as

it was when the meat processing was going on approximately five years ago. It looks like a

typical lab, with a hood, weights, microscopes, old computers, etc. There is a steep staircase

to processing floor.

The processing areas include wide open spaces, stainless steel coolers and stainless steel

continuous cooking systems. There are hanging rack systems and stainless steel sausage

hanging trees and meat hooks. The metal rods are on site in a large can in one of the

hallways. There are stainless pitch forks in the corner of one roomcertainly could be an

ominous prop!

There are two lofted areas on the ends of a large open room. Access to those lofts is easilyaccessible via metal staircases. Might be a good area for overhead view of activities below

could likely put a camera up in each location. There are some plastic wrapping supplies in this

room.

There is a hickory smoked wood chip smoker room with intact/working smokers, bags of

hickory chips and a wood chip grinder with some ground hickory chips still in the grinder.


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On the NE side of the building inside the metal fence is a loading dock, outside storage areas

and access to a fully stocked maintenance shop. Everything is as it was when plant shut down.

There is a break room with picnic tables and microwaves off one of the processing rooms. A

steep staircase outside that room leads to the loading dock inside the fenced area on the NE

side of building.


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