San Antonio Surlean Foods expansion adds culinary R&D

SAN ANTONIO – Surlean Foods purchased a 114,000-sf building at 2001 Laredo St. to expand its local headquarters on the near West Side. The company, which manufactures customized food for restaurant chains, purchased the facility to include a culinary center for product research and development.

Surlean spent $1.6 million on expansions last year and plans to invest another $2.6 million by 2015. Surlean also recently opened a 90,000-sf production facility in Dallas. The growth has created about 75 new jobs.

Read more at the San Antonio Express-News.