WATSONVILLE — Lakeside Organic Gardens’ new shipping and storage facility is nearly complete, and workers on Monday were installing electric, refrigeration and plumbing systems throughout the building.
Owner Dick Peixoto estimates the facility will be complete within three weeks.
The original May estimated completion time was delayed by heavy winter rains, Peixoto said.
“It’s going along,” he said. “We’re getting there.”
The facility at 25 Sakata Lane features a 50,000-square-foot building that will serve as the company’s cooler facility, from where the company’s produce will be received, cooled, stored and shipped.
After the storage facility is complete, work will then begin on another 50,0000-square-foot building, which will include administrative and sales offices.
The new building will more than double Lakeside’s storage capacity, and allow workers to load several trucks at once, thus expediting operations, Peixoto said.
All told, both buildings will boast 100,000 square feet of solar panels on their roofs, Peixoto said.
The new space brings together Pajaro Valley Laser Leveling and Pajaro Valley Irrigation, both part of the Dick Peixoto Family of Companies.
