The Intervale Center’s
Food Enterprise Center
The Intervale Food Enterprise Center will provide an important link between farms—from the Intervale and northern Vermont—and consumers looking for nutritious locally grown food. This uniquely integrated food-processing facility will enable small food processors to employ season-extending processing techniques and develop new, value-added products.
Already permitted and designed, the Intervale Food Enterprise Center will include a 20,000 square-foot LEED-certified modular food-processing facility and a 21,000 square-foot, year-round greenhouse. Participating local food processors will be supported by shared branding, storage, and shipping facilities, as well as a community kitchen to incubate new products. Both the food-processing facility and the greenhouse will be heated by waste heat from the neighboring City of Burlington wood-fired generating plant.
Pre-development of the Intervale Food Enterprise Center has been the result of investments totaling nearly $850,000 by the City of Burlington and the Intervale Center. The total estimated budget for the Food Enterprise Center—including development, buildings and infrastructure, and operations for the first year—is $5.5 million.
For more information, please contact Don McCormick, Food Enterprise Center Director, at (802) 660-0440 x101.