Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery to start on infrastructure expansion

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery in Pierce County has received $407,000 from the Community Development Block Grant-Economic Development Program administered by the Department of Commerce.

The grant will enable the city to build a long box culvert as well as make street improvements adjacent to the creamery which will allow the business to expand. The company is constructing a 10,000-square-foot addition and will reconfigure and reconstruct the front entrance and expand employee parking.

According to a news release from the governor’s office, the company will invest more than $4 million in new equipment for the encapsulation process and will create 25 jobs over a five-year period.