Henry Avocado was founded in 1925 by Charles and Florence Henry who were among the first growers to plant avocados in San Diego County.
Work has begun on a cold storage distribution center for Henry Avocado, an Escondido, Calif.-based company that will use the facility to grow its supply chain of avocados to restaurants, food distributors and grocery stores along the East Coast, according to a statement Thursday from A M King, the firm handling construction of the site.
The 25,000 square-foot facility near 4045 Perimeter West Dr., near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, will be able to distribution 1 million cartons a year of fresh avocados sourced from Mexico, California, Peru and Chile, said Phil Henry, president of Henry Avocado Corp.
