Greeley City Council approves rezone, PUD for Colorado Premium Foods plant

GREELEY — The Greeley City Council Tuesday unanimously approved a rezone and planned unit development for a new meat-production plant in central Greeley. 

The approval will give local meat manufacturer K2D Inc., which does business as Colorado Premium Foods, a large new facility for processing its custom orders.

The facility will be located in the vacant 172,000-square-foot former big-box retail store at 2400 W. 29th St. That building was originally a Kmart, which closed in 2008. After that, the building was the home of Greeley-Weld Habitat for Humanity’s Restore retail shop. After the Habitat Restore moved to a bigger location in the…