Greer Business Faces Condemnation by SC Ports Authority

A Greer business faces condemnation on its lease by the SC Ports Authority, which needs the site for the new inland port now under construction.

On Tuesday, the ports authority board voted to begin the condemnation process against Atlanta-based Nordic Cold Storage, which operates a cold storage facility at 996 E. Poinsett St. Extension, according to a GSA Business report.

Nordic freeze blasts and exports poultry products at the site, which employs six full-time employees, in addition to temp workers, the paper reported. The facility has been in operation at the site for 15 years.

Nordic has a 40-year lease with the ports authority, with 11 years remaining. Ports authority officials said the condemnation process was decided after negotiations with the company to buy out the lease broke down.

Nordic owns the building and learned of the condemnation about a month ago, Linda Lathrop, Nordic’s office manager, told the paper.

“We’re looking for a new space, but it’s not that easy to find a large enough space equipped with what we need. It’s a time consuming process,” Lathrop said. “This inland port has been planned since last year. We talked to them in August and September, and no one said anything, and all of a sudden we’re supposed to move.”

Read the original article here.