Jamestown  (CSi)  The Dakota Brands International plant in north Jamestown shut down on May 1, 2020, and the building is for sale.

Finance Manager Sharon Schultz says, the plant and two other business properties are being divested by the ownership, and Dakota Brands, formerly Dakota Bake N Serve had been on the market for a few months, but no offers were made.

She says the equipment has been sold through an auction, and was dismantled, and the building is currently being emptied of its equipment, and will be distributed to the high bidders.   The silo at the site, on land leased from Jamestown Regional Airport has been taken down.

After all the equipment is moved out, the facility will be cleaned next week before being closed.

She adds that the building owned by the company is currently for sale.

The Jamestown location has five employees, still at the plant, in management.  They will and all the 17 Jamestown employees will be paid through June 12 this year.

The plant was operating one shift, with  four, ten hour shifts per week.

Dakota Bake N Serve began in 1967 at a small location, and after moving twice, moved the second time to its current location in 1971, producing “high quality frozen and refrigerated products for the food service industry including yeast raised bread dough products, for retail and food service industries,under the name for Kerr Industries (1992), H. J. Heinz (90-91) J. L. Foods, Oregon Farms Division (84-89) and Rhodes from (68-84.)