Cold storage project to create 50 jobs

TAMPA — Port Tampa Bay and Port Logistics Tampa Bay I Inc., a developer, plan to start construction of a 130,000-square-foot cold storage food facility at the port early next year.

When it opens in November 2016, the $19.1 million facility will employ 50 full-time employees and up to 200 part-time, according to George Livingston, a Central Florida industrial developer and principal in Port Logistics Tampa Bay I.

The Tampa Port Authority Board recently approved a 27-year lease for Port Logistics Tampa Bay I for the 13.7-acre site on Hookers Point at Port Tampa Bay. It also hired Atlanta-based Batson-Cook Co. as contract manager for the project.