title: 2800 Polar Way
text: # 2800 Polar Way
  
  2800 Polar Way is a cold storage facility located in Richland, Washington, United States, where it dominates the northern landscape. It is both the largest refrigerated warehouse and the largest automated freezer on Earth. Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) financed the build-to-suit refrigerated warehouse for tenant Preferred Freezer Services. The project broke ground on May 12, 2014, and opened in late July 2015.
  
  In 2016, HHF sold the property to Lexington Realty Trust, an S&P 600 REIT company. In 2019, Lineage Logistics acquired Preferred Freezer, and continues to operate the facility.
  
  ## Capacity
  
  The warehouse has an area of 505,139 square feet (46,928.9 $m^2)—of$ which 456,412 square feet (42,402.1 $m^2)$ is refrigerated—and a volume of 36,340,650 cubic feet (1,029,053 $m^3).$ The facility is capable of storing about 350 million pounds (160 kt) of frozen food. 2800 Polar Way is the largest refrigerated building on earth by usable volume.
  
  In 2019, the company purchased an additional 8.6-acre (3.5 ha) lot to expand facilities by one third.
  
  