Baldinger Bakery officially broke ground on April 30 on a new $30 million, 144,000-square-foot plant on the eastern end of the Beacon Bluff Business Center. Baldinger, a 122-year-old Saint Paul company, services the McDonald’s restaurant chain, among other customers. The company’s new facility will be roughly three times the size of the plant the company operates now 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 Environmental Design (LEED) certification.

Baldinger has more than 100 employees and has agreed to add at least 42 more over its 10-year workforce agreement with the Port Authority.