CLEARFIELD—Anyone driving along 300 S. and 700 W. in Clearfield has probably seen a huge building that sits on 37 acres of land inside the Freeport Center. The 670,000 square foot facility is the new Lifetime Products Distribution Center. It officially opened on Feb. 2.

“It will be the central shipping location to 118 countries around the world,” said Landon Southwick, PR & Digital Media Manager. “It was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. To build it in the middle of a pandemic is amazing and they had the foresight to buy the materials ahead of time for the challenges that were coming.”

Lifetime is known for its outdoor products from patio chairs to basketball hoops. “This is our main headquarters and we have six factory outlet stores from Boise to St. George,” Southwick said. “We started with 80,000 square feet and now we have 40 buildings in the Freeport Center. We have another distribution center in Knoxville, Tenn.”

The new facility will allow trucks to pick up all the orders from one location, he said. “The demand for our products is still high and we need the space to ship it out.”

The 40 foot ceilings accommodate for “mega racks,” Southwick said. “They can go 30 feet into the air and it allows us to put products on it that can be loaded right into a semi. The building will eventually be full of mega racks.”

All the products are stored and packaged at the facility, he said. “It’s less packaging and more environmentally friendly to store it in a more efficient way.”

This building is 670,000 square feet, said Southwick. “The largest Costco in Utah is 235,000 square feet. Eleven football fields would fit inside this building. It took 35,000 gallons of paint and they could only get 2,000 gallons at a time.”

To see the tremendous success and commitment of Lifetime to this place is remarkable, said Gov. Spencer Cox at the ribbon cutting. “They probably had the opportunity to take it someplace else. This shows how important manufacturing is to Utah. This is the perfect example to show people you can do it here.”

“Lifetime Products is committed to Davis County and to the state of Utah,” said Davis Chamber President and CEO Angie Osguthorpe. “This new 670,000 square foot state-of-the-art warehouse is more evidence of that. The additional space will allow them to ship their products all over the world more quickly. They are a home-grown company that has profound, ever-increasing impact on economic development and quality of life here locally and we are proud that they are a Davis Chamber member and partner.”

Since 1986 Lifetime has continued to expand, said Southwick. “Utah has been a big part of that and Clearfield City’s involvement has been vital. We love being part of the community.”λ