California Dairies Inc. is moving forward on plans to transform a sprawling industrial parcel in Bakersfield into a modern bottling plant for dairy products that will employ nearly 400 people.
Bakersfield officials recently gave a conditional green light for the planned facility. The project is set to be built in phases with the first phase to total 150,000 square feet and the completed plant slated to measure roughly 400,000 square feet.
The Banducci family had farmed the property for multiple generations before it agreed to sell, based on the buyer's agricultural plans for the site. The bottling plant
is expected to handle dairy products including cream, raw, skim, condensed and powdered milk.
The deal earned a 2024 CoStar Impact award for the sale of the year for Bakersfield, as chosen by an independent panel of industry professionals within the market.
About the Deal: Sunrise Asset Investments, on behalf of California Dairies, paid a little more than $9.2 million for the 46-acre site at 8801 Gosford Road in southwest Bakersfield from Banducci Farming in June. The all-cash deal closed in June and worked out to roughly $200,000 per acre.
They Made It Happen: ASU Commercial's Dylan Lym and Boyd Binninger represented both the buyer and seller.