Food packager plans to build a new plant, add jobs on the South Side

A food packaging company will move its operations and expand at a vacant New City industrial site in a deal involving city-owned property, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday.

Harvest Food Group will build a $60 million facility at 1924 W. 46^th St., a blocklong site the city has controlled since 2006. The company will move from Archer Heights and plans to add about 50 jobs to its current production staff of 200, city officials said.