StarNews: State moves ahead on cold storage facility at port

The N.C. Council of State voted Tuesday to approve a ground lease allowing USA InvestCo to build a 75,000-square-foot cold storage facility to store fruit, vegetables and meat. The facility could ultimately be expanded to 300,000 square feet, in 75,000-square-foot increments.

“Considering we’re the second-biggest pork producer and second-biggest producer of poultry in aggregate … we’d really like to keep that business in North Carolina,” said Chuck Schoninger, managing member of USA InvestCo.