Baldinger Bakery
Baldinger Bakery has been turning out hamburger buns – millions of them – for McDonald's restaurants since 1957, the year Bob Baldinger made a handshake agreement to supply buns for Minnesota's first McDonald's franchise in Roseville.
On April 30, 2010, the 122-year-old Saint Paul company broke ground on a new 144,000-square-foot baking and office complex on the eastern end of the Saint Paul Port Authority's Beacon Bluff Business Center. When fully operational later in 2011, the company will be able to bake 64,800 McDonald's buns an hour.
The new facility will be roughly three times the size of the plant Baldinger has been operating since 1969 in the Port's Riverview Business Center on Saint Paul's West Side. Design plans, including water reduction, heat recapturing and other technology efficiencies are part of a goal to become the largest building of its kind in the Midwest to achieve federal Leadership in Energy and Enviornmental Design (LEED) certification. Get the contractor's take on this project here
