Bay Grove Adds Plant to Cold Storage Empire

SANTA MARIA, CA—Capping off a year of non-stop growth in the high-rent market for refrigerated space, Bay Grove Capital LLC of San Francisco has acquired a 335,000-square-foot warehouse in this Bay Area city. The terms of the purchase, which includes a 27-acre site, were not disclosed.

The purchase cements Bay Grove’s position as one of the largest owners and operators of refrigerated industrial space in the country. The investment firm and its wholly owned cold storage companies have a total combined capacity of over five million square feet of floor space and 130 million cubic feet of storage capacity, making the company the fifth largest in North America, according to International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses.