Grocery Chain to Expand St. Louis Distribution Center, Add Jobs
Date Posted: November 21, 2024
Posted In: News, Projects,
From St. Louis Business Journal: A grocery store chain is looking to expand its St. Louis warehouse that serves several states, as part of a national expansion plan.
Discount grocer Aldi Inc., based out of Batavia, Illinois, has long operated a distribution center at 475 Pearl Drive in O’Fallon, Missouri, where it’s looking to expand the building and its parking so that it can expand product storage and add a third shift of workers to move products, city documents show.
In a request to expand the existing 429,473-square-foot building by 151,000 square feet and add a second truck entrance and more parking areas, Aldi said it currently employs 200 people at the site, but anticipates higher demand as the distribution center moves to 24-hour operations.
The distribution center, located directly off Highway 79, serves Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Arkansas, and houses an Aldi office along with the warehouse, according to engineer Brandon Harp of the St. Louis-based firm Civil Engineer Design Consultants, who represented Aldi at a Nov. 7 meeting of O’Fallon’s planning commission. Over the next several years, after the addition of a third shift, Aldi is looking to add 50 to 100 employees at the O’Fallon site, Harp said.
“Aldi’s expanding and doing a lot of stores throughout this region, and this is the main site that supplies that,” Harp said at the meeting.