When Eduardo Ibarra showed up for his first day at the construction site of Washington Fruit and Produce’s new packing house, he knew he’d have work for a while.
“This is going to take forever,” the ceiling contractor employee recalled thinking when he began hanging tiles in the cavernous River Road building. “We’re going to be here awhile.”
Construction crews working on fruit industry expansions have been busy for years and will remain so as companies continue to invest tens of millions of dollars in new packing lines, increased controlled-atmosphere storage and trucking bays needed to keep pace with new technology and ever-increasing crop volumes.
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