Midwest Refrigerated Services Breaks Ground on 200K-Square-Foot Illinois Cold Storage Site
Belvidere location will feature 40,000 pallet positions.
Midwest Refrigerated Services (MRS) based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, broke ground on their new regional distribution center in Belvidere, Illinois, on Wednesday, February 14. The new facility will be their second location in Belvidere following the opening of MRS’s first warehouse in the city in September, 2023. Upon completion, the operation will add 85 new jobs to Belvidere.
Scheduled to open in March of 2025, the fully racked 200,000-square-foot facility will provide over 40,000 pallet positions of refrigerated storage and will employ state-of-the-art layer picking technology. The 83-acre site is capable of expanding the warehouse footprint to over 1-million square feet. The site is rail served by the Union Pacific Railroad.