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Oakland: Logistics company Pacific American Services (PACAM), celebrates its 20th year of operation with an announcement of plans to build a state-of-the-art warehouse facility at its flagship location in Oakland. Linda Childs Hothem, PACAM’s Founder, says the company will demolish several of its older, inefficient buildings on the original 22-acre campus to make way for the facility, which will comprise over 70,000 square feet of high cube, narrow aisle racking for maximum efficiency, to store over 8,000 pallets of domestic and imported goods.

Since 1987, PACAM has provided award winning, third-party logistics (3PL) and public warehousing services with specialized expertise processing high-valued domestic and imported goods, wines & spirits, food & beverages, organic food products, confectionary & bulk ingredients, paper products, high tech, retail, apparel & consumer packaged goods.

According to PACAM president, Scott Hothem, the new facility caps a period of unprecedented growth and represents a commitment to invest in the community where PACAM found success. “Over the years we have owned facilities in Hayward, Daly City, San Francisco and San Leandro. We certainly could have chosen to build or purchase warehouse space in another Bay Area community. But the soul of PACAM is in Oakland and that’s where we wanted to invest for our future,” Hothem says.

“PACAM’s Oakland facility is already well-positioned close to the Port of Oakland. “This additional warehouse capacity will greatly strengthen our logistics services to the port and in this market.”

PACAM was founded by the late Ronald Hothem and Linda Childs Hothem in 1987. Two years later, with the purchase of the former Gerber baby food production facility, PACAM headquarters moved to Oakland. Situated on the 22-acre site were many buildings that had been abandoned and left to deteriorate, making their immediate use impossible.

An exercise in patience, according to Ms. Hothem, the renovation of 500,000 square feet took place one building at a time. “We worked to make one space habitable, moved in and then plowed into the next.” It took more than 10 years to complete the renovations, but eventually all of the buildings were put back into service.

Today, PACAM has over 100 employees. It owns and operates more than 900,000 square feet of warehouse space in the Bay Area including Oakland Foreign Trade Zone #56 and provides warehousing, transportation and contract packaging services for over 250 customers worldwide.