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LOVELAND, CO-Five Rivers Cattle Feeding Co., a cattle feeding company, next month will move its corporate headquarters to this city in Northern Colorado. It will take 9,600 sf at 3855 Precision Dr. in the Centerra development by McWhinney Enterprises. Five Rivers, which is moving from Boulder, will be next to the new headquarters for the Heska Corp.
Five Rivers was created last May as an independent joint venture between ContiGroup Cos. and Smithfield Foods Inc. It currently operates 10 feed yards throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho and Kansas. Five Rivers manages a feeding capacity of more than 800,000 cattle. The corporate office at Centerra will initially bring 27 new jobs to the area.
Five Rivers considered several locations in the Front Range, including Greeley, Boulder and Longmont. The company chose Centerra because its regional location will allow the company to serve its broad base of customers throughout Colorado and the western United States, as well as provide a convenient central location for its employees. Centerra's immediate access to the interstate also provides the company quick access to Denver International Airport.
"McWhinney Enterprises was able to deliver a finished space faster than other options we were considering, and they had a good variety of office choices for us at Centerra," says Luke Lind, marketing director for Five Rivers.
"We look forward to being a larger part of the Northeast Colorado agricultural economy, and are already in the process of strengthening our ties to producers and communities in the region,"adds Five Rivers' CEO Mike Thoren. "Our operation is fairly de-centralized, with a lot of the jobs and decision making located in the feed yards themselves." Five Rivers has four feed yards in Colorado. These yards are located in the rural communities of Gilcrest, Kersey, Yuma, and one in the southeast corner of the state at Lamar.
Five Rivers is the first tenant in the 32,000-sf flex-office building, a new type of office product available at Centerra, a 3,000-acre , mixed-use community. McWhinney Enterprises is the owner/developer of the building. Ron Kuehl, VP of real estate at McWhinney is the developer's representative and broker. Delta Construction built the development and is providing tenant finish services for Five Rivers.
With interest high for flex-office space, McWhinney plans on developing more of the product type. Kuehl says that they have identified that flex-office is an "underserved niche" and plans to start construction of a second building this year to accommodate expected demand.
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