An independent Cold Storage Feasibility Study evaluating a 102,471 SF refrigerated cold storage facility in Amarillo, Texas.
AMARILLO, Texas — Wert-Berater, Inc., an independent feasibility study consulting firm serving lenders and government agencies since 1998, has completed a Cold Storage Feasibility Study in Amarillo, Potter County, Texas.
Wert-Berater served as independent feasibility consultant to the lender. Party names are withheld consistent with the confidential nature of underwriting and capital-advisory work; figures represent the project as evaluated at the study date.
Proposed development of a 102,471-square-foot refrigerated cold storage facility with 28-foot clear height and 2.77 million cubic feet of storage capacity on a 19.97-acre industrially zoned site in the Amarillo logistics corridor, positioned on Interstate 40 with rail service. The facility is designed around automated pallet handling, warehouse management software, and continuous temperature monitoring, operating a lean five-to-seven-employee model with food-safety compliance to federal regulatory and HACCP standards.
Demand was anchored rather than assumed: a letter of intent from a regional dairy processor (party withheld) commits up to 25 million pounds of bulk cheese annually, with non-member volumes conservatively projected at 2 to 5 million pounds in year one. The ten-year pro forma builds revenue from $3,957,594 toward $5,174,877 across storage fees, handling and ancillary services — shrink wrapping, labeling, cross-docking — and spot-market activity, with discounted cash flow analysis at an eight percent rate supporting the financial feasibility determination.
Opening long-term debt of $13,353,508 amortizing to $11,542,298 by Year 10 against fixed annual debt service of $1,185,721, with net worth building from $559,629 to $16,816,682 over the ten-year horizon as cash accumulates and principal retires. Property taxes were modeled at full assessment on the $16,000,000 construction basis with no abatement assumed, despite available county incentives.
The structural challenge was concentration: a lean automated staffing model magnifies key-person risk, addressed in the study through cross-training, redundancy in critical roles, and succession planning requirements; and the anchor-supplier relationship concentrates demand, addressed through the conservative non-member volume assumptions and competitive demand analysis for the Amarillo region.
Wert-Berater, Inc. is an independent feasibility study consulting firm founded in 1998, providing lender- and agency-facing feasibility studies, highest-and-best-use analyses, and capital-advisory support. The firm has completed 4,000+ engagements across all 50 states and internationally, evaluating over $41.2 billion in project value for SBA, USDA, EB-5, conventional, and institutional financing decisions. In every engagement, fiduciary duty runs to the lender and the applicable agency.
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