New $20 million food distribution center to add 150 jobs in University Park

Dot Foods officials said Wednesday the food service company will hire 150 people over the next two to three years to staff a new distribution center in University Park.

Standing inside the cavernous and mostly empty warehouse, company officials said the facility is partially operational, but wouldn’t be completed until sometime toward the first quarter of next year.

Headquartered in Mount Sterling, northwest of Springfield, Dot Foods will expand truck parking at the property, 251 Central Ave., near the new Interstate 57/Stuenkel Road interchange…Please click here to read Mike Nolan’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown. A related story is here.