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Jill Hammergren
jill@themediapro.biz
919-805-1061

Location: Curtis Packing Company
2416 Randolph Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27406


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This is a former cooked sausage plant. It has 40,000 square feet of space. It is closed and
clean, and ready for sale or reuse, however there are a few items still in place that give it the
authenticity of a meat processing plant. The building sits on the northwest corner of Randolph
and Patton Avenues in Greensboro, NC. It faces S-SE.
Exterior: The exterior is red brick and has a few multiple levels. It sits at a corner in an
industrial area. The meat processing building sits across the street from the companys main
offices. Across the Patton Street is the City of Greensboros town services buildings, but the
entrance are far away from the plant side, and those are surrounded by fenced parking lots.
Behind and next to the back of the property (NE side) there are a meat rendering plant and a
chemical plant. Both of those buildings have noticeable humming of fans and processors, but
they are constant and appropriate to the surroundings since this is an industrial part of town.
Normal conversations are easily heard without having to raise voices.
Part of the property is separated by a two-lane paved street and then there are freight train
tracks. The tracks are probably 50-75 yards from the meat processing building, but they are on
the NW side of the building where there are three very large loading docks able to service
semi-trailers or flatbed trucks. The line is operated by Norfolk Southern. I talked with Robin
Chapman, PR for Norfolk Southern. There are two trains that come through this area its
actually one train that makes a roundtrip so two trains between 3am and 3pm. They cant be
more specific than that, but it does cross a public right of way, so they do blow the horn as they
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come through. While I was on site for 1.5-2 hours during that time frame, I never heard or saw
the train, so I am not sure how loudly you hear it inside the plant. Owner says that the train
was never heard when meat was being processed, but hes not sure what it would sound like
without the equipment on. (Robin said that it may be possible to narrow down the times on the
day of production.)
There is ample parking all around the plant and the property directly across Randolph, which is
owned by company. Access for equipment load-in would likely be best at loading dock inside
the metal fence on the NE back corner or the three loading docks on the NW back side of the
building or the smaller loading dock in the front SE corner of the building. You could put
generators on any of the loading dock areas. Expect to have a 200-500 cable run for those
depending on where your need to go inside the building.
The NE back part of the plant is surrounded by a very large gravel parking lot and metal
fencing. There is another loading dock inside the fencing and open air, yet covered
maintenance sheds and remnants from a metal livestock pen that was converted into a shed
and roof added when the plant stopped being a kill house and moved to plant that did just
trimmings and mixings for cooked sausages in the late 1960s. There is an outside fluid
dispensary area, that is obviously dry since the plant is not operational at this time.
On the SE side of the building, there are three entrances- one with a five-step transom into the
front offices. There is a loading dock to left of that entrance that leads to the customer
reception area and then directly into the plant through some steel doors and to the right of the
main entrance there is a glass-fronted Quality Control Lab with a one-step brick transom.
Inside that lab, there is a stairwell that leads to the production floor.
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Interior: There are some Stainless Steel work rooms, tiled workspaces with exposed support
beams, sinks and hoses are on some of those support beams, sausage holding trees hang
from racks running through the plant; there are a couple of meat hooks hanging on a rack;
stainless steel coolers and cookers, smokers, a Hickory grinder and bags of hickory for
smoking, racks hanging from the ceilings, large metal vats and plastic containers used for raw
meat.
The floors are concrete. They are level with the exceptions of sloping toward in-floor drains.
There is one room that bricks for the flooring. Even though it has been cleaned, it is slightly
slippery from years of grease.
There is power throughout, but many rooms have fluorescent lighting and the bulbs arent
working, so those would need to be replaced. There are a few lights in the place that buzz very
loudly, so those would have to be replaced, too. Inside the plant is quiet, otherwise.
There are a few offices in the building, at the front entrance that are still used, but they are
separated from the plant by steel doors and by a reception area in the middle that isnt
currently used. There are power receptacles on support beams from hanging drop down
ceiling outlets. Most are 110/220 volts, but owner recommends having one of their
maintenance/electrician walk through and test power locations for you prior to production to
ensure that you have the sufficient power in all the right locations throughout the plant.
There is a small open elevator shaft that was used to bring up vats of meat trimmings. It still
works.
The quality control lab on the SE corner of the property has a glass front. It is left intact and as
it was when the meat processing was going on approximately five years ago. It looks like a
typical lab, with a hood, weights, microscopes, old computers, etc. There is a steep staircase
to processing floor.
The processing areas include wide open spaces, stainless steel coolers and stainless steel
continuous cooking systems. There are hanging rack systems and stainless steel sausage
hanging trees and meat hooks. The metal rods are on site in a large can in one of the
hallways. There are stainless pitch forks in the corner of one roomcertainly could be an
ominous prop!
There are two lofted areas on the ends of a large open room. Access to those lofts is easily
accessible via metal staircases. Might be a good area for overhead view of activities below
could likely put a camera up in each location. There are some plastic wrapping supplies in this
room.
There is a hickory smoked wood chip smoker room with intact/working smokers, bags of
hickory chips and a wood chip grinder with some ground hickory chips still in the grinder.
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On the NE side of the building inside the metal fence is a loading dock, outside storage areas
and access to a fully stocked maintenance shop. Everything is as it was when plant shut down.
There is a break room with picnic tables and microwaves off one of the processing rooms. A
steep staircase outside that room leads to the loading dock inside the fenced area on the NE
side of building.

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