Soli Organic Inc.’s facility at Brooks on San Antonio’s South Side spans 144,000 square feet and grows a variety of herbs and salad greens.
In an industrial building on the South Side , a Virginia -based agricultural company is growing food using a different concept for a key element of farming — the farm. Instead of bucolic fields stretching out to the horizon, Soli Organic Inc. ’s operation reaches up toward the ceiling inside a mostly windowless 140,000-square-foot building. Rather than rows of crops, there are stacks of soaring metal shelves crammed with containers of spinach, basil and lettuce.
At the former Brooks Air Force Base, a metamorphosis is nearly complete. Or is it? The vertical farm at Brooks — which grows produce in soil rather than water or air — is the first of its kind in San Antonio. Its opening comes as many companies focused on such controlled-environment farming methods are struggling. Eventually, more than 10 types of herbs and salad greens will be grown here and sold to retailers including H-E-B, Walmart, Kroger and Whole Foods Market.
Massive development set for 2,000 acres of ranchland on San Antonio’s Southeast Side Ryan declined to specify how many pounds of herbs and salad greens Soli Organic produces annually, saying that it varies depending on which crops are grown and how much space is dedicated to each one at a given time. The Rockingham, Va.-based company operates indoor farms in Anderson, S.C., and the Seattle area, and said it is scouting locations in the Northeast and Midwest to expand its customer base there.
English company breaks ground on its $500M San Antonio heavy equipment manufacturing plant The San Antonio facility cost upwards of $50 million to build. Soli Organic is leasing the building from investment management firm Decennial Group, which announced a $120 million financing deal with Soli Organic in 2021.
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