Chobani Breaks Ground on $1.2B Dairy Plant
Yogurt company Chobani has broken ground on a $1.2 billion dairy plant encompassing 1.4 million square feet in Rome, N.Y. This marks the largest natural food manufacturing investment in the nation’s history.
The construction site spans 150 acres inside the 3,500-acre Griffiss Business & Technology Park in Mohawk Valley. Last year, the campus received more than $23 million in grants for infrastructure and transportation improvements.
Upon completion, the plant will feature up to 28 production lines designed to process roughly 12 million pounds of milk per day. At full capacity, the factory will produce upward of 1 billion pounds of dairy products per year.
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The company is set to receive up to $73 million in tax credits from Empire State Development, and in exchange, the new plant will create more than 1,000 full-time jobs.
Chobani’s project in New York kicked off just one month after the firm presented a $500 million expansion plan at its Twin Falls, Idaho, plant, which will add half a million square feet of new space, to be operational by next year.
Additionally, Chobani is set to open its new global headquarters in Manhattan later this year. The firm agreed to occupy part of CBSK Ironstate’s 360 Bowery, a 120,000-square-foot office property.
New York State’s expanding dairy industry
New York’s dairy industry represents the largest single segment of the state’s $8 billion agricultural business. The Empire State encompasses roughly 200 dairy processing facilities.
Chobani isn’t the only company betting on the state’s milk industry. Last year, Coca-Cola Co. and its fairlife dairy subsidiary broke ground on a $650 million, 745,000-square-foot manufacturing plant near Rochester, N.Y. The facility is expected to be operational by year’s end.
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