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Pickle Plant's Proposal Gets Sour Reception

BRIDGEPORT TOWNSHIP, MI-The rezoning rejection means the pickle processor will look elsewhere for land to build a 30,000-sf plant.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on September 22, 2003

BRIDGEPORT TOWNSHIP, MI-The rejection of a rezoning request has left a pickle packer with a peck of problems.

Trustees in Saginaw County’s Bridgeport Township rejected Hausbeck Pickle Co. Inc.’s request to rezone 37.5 residential acres for light industry so it can build a $2.5 million processing plant.

Hausbeck Pickle’s 43 employees produce 25 million pounds of pickles and four million pounds of banana and jalapeno peppers annually at its 80-year-old, 20,000-sf plant in neighboring Spaulding Township, about 100 miles north of Detroit.

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