A company with contracts to can popular beverages like White Claw, High Noon, Monster Energy and Celsius is the first tenant at the redeveloped Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery property.
The 1,300-acre industrial campus situated mostly in South Philly but also reaching into Southwest is now called the Bellwether District and is owned by the HRP Group. The new tenant, California-based canned beverage manufacturer DrinkPAK, will occupy a warehouses that HRP Group is building on site.
DrinkPAK will invest $195 million in the new facility located near 26th Street and Penrose Avenue at the foot of the George C. Platt Bridge. The company is receiving a $2 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and a press release from Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office said the new DrinkPAK facility will create 174 jobs over the next three years…