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    California's wealthiest farm family plans mega-warehouse complex that would reshape San Joaquin Valley economy

    California's wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley. Outside of Kern, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the billionaire owners of the Wonderful Co., are better known for pomegranates and pistachios. But for more than a decade, they have also owned a master-planned ...
    by Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times May 08, 2024 6 minutes
    Plans for the Wonderful Industrial Park, right, include expansion to the west, left; an inland port bringing in goods by rail from the Port of Los Angeles and sending out agriculture as well as a truck bypass road to keep traffic and emissions away from disadvantaged communities. The rail terminal would remove the equivalent of 240 diesel trucks from the roads.

    California's wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley.

    Outside of Kern, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the billionaire owners of the Wonderful Co., are better known for pomegranates and pistachios. But for more than a decade, they have also owned a master-planned industrial park in the city of Shafter, northwest of Bakersfield, that is home to distribution centers for Fortune 500 companies like Target, Amazon and Walmart.

    Now, looking to capitalize on the seismic shift to online shopping, the Resnicks want to position Kern County as a new frontier for the industrial-scale warehousing that is key to connecting customers with their goods. Wonderful is pushing to more than double the size of its industrial park by converting 1,800 acres of its own almond groves into additional warehousing space.

    And it's pursuing costly infrastructure projects that company leaders say will mitigate the impacts

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