page_title: Swift Packing Company building (Sioux City, Iowa)
section_title: Packing plant
hierarchical_section_title: Swift Packing Company building (Sioux City, Iowa) / Packing plant
caption_attribution_description: English: Vacant lot formerly occupied by Swift &amp; Co. packing plant, a.k.a. Midland Packing Company, a.k.a. KD Stockyards Station, at 2001 Leech Avenue (north side of Leech just west of Floyd River) in Sioux City, Iowa. Camera is facing north across Leech.
context_page_description: The Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Sioux City, in the state of Iowa in the Midwestern United States, was built in 1918–19 as a speculative venture under the name Midland Packing Plant. After going into receivership, it was acquired by Swift & Co. in 1924, and continued to operate until 1974. It was then purchased by a Sioux City businessman and converted to an enclosed mall, the KD Stockyards Station. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
  Fire and water damage in 2004 forced its closing, and the building was demolished in 2010. It was delisted from the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
context_section_description: The plant's footprint measured about 330 by 240 feet (100 by 75 m).  The building was about 90 feet (25 m) high. The main portion consisted of six stories above a basement; five-story sections lay to the south and the northeast.  The exterior walls consisted of concrete, insulated with cork and faced with brick; to provide insulation and keep meat cool, portions of these walls were up to 30 inches (75 cm) thick.
  Processing moved downward in the plant.  Cattle and hogs were killed on the fifth floor and stored in coolers on the fifth and sixth floors.  Hog carcasses were brought down to the fourth floor for cutting, then subjected to more specialized processes on lower floors.  Cattle carcasses were processed on the first floor.  Both pork and beef were shipped out via a loading dock at the east end of the building.
caption: Site in 2015
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