Berry’s Executive Vice President Plastics adding sky bridge

October 8, 2009 · Posted in Mining Exploration · Comment 

The skyline over West Franklin Street west of Oakley Street soon will change when a pedestrian sky bridge is built as part of a $20.9 million expansion project under way by Evansville-headquartered Berry Plastics Corp.Fred Heseman, Berry’s executive vice president/engineering technology, said construction on the bridge is expected to start in about a month and be complete by February. The site is just east of First Avenue.The proposed bridge over Franklin will connect to the second level of Berry’s new 85,500-square-foot manufacturing building addition, currently under construction on the south side of the street. Read more