Dive Brief:

• General Mills has broken ground on a new $24 million, 155,000-square-foot cold chain distribution center at Comstock Township's Midlink Business Park.
• The center will be focused primarily on the Minneapolis-based food maker's yogurt business and will be located at the former site of a General Motors Corp. metal stamping plant south of I-94.
• The facility should open in July 2014, creating 27 new jobs in the next two years.

Dive Insight:

The location was selected for its strategic location, and local and state government entities are offering a variety of support to General Mills and its contractors for the project. Incentives include $1,526,000 in 10-year real and personal property tax abatement from Comstock Township, $1,523,900 in Brownfield and local incentives from Kalamazoo County, and a $371,000 education tax abatement from the state of Michigan.