Governor Kelly announced that JTM Foods, LLC has chosen Wichita as the new home of JJ’s Snack Pies, and has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in the ICT21 Industrial District.
JTM Foods plans to hire 150 people within the next two years and invest $40 million in the Wichita facility.
The Wichita facility will provide increased production capacity and improve the logistics for Southern, Southwest, and West Coast markets of the hand-held snack pies. This expansion is JTM Foods’ first outside Pennsylvania.
In February 2021, Governor Kelly unveiled a comprehensive economic development strategy for the state, the first of its kind in more than 30 years, called the Kansas Framework for Growth. Two of the five targeted sectors for accelerated growth are advanced manufacturing and food & agriculture.
The JTM Foods team chose ICT21 Industrial District because of its location in the country and proximity to I-135. The industrial district is located on formerly blighted land that has 560,000 square feet of industrial space under construction through the development group led by Ron and Marty Cornejo.
“We are thrilled to play a part in bringing this land back into productive use,” said Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple. “Not only will this produce hundreds of jobs in our city, but it will also help represent a significant expansion of the food manufacturing sector locally, making Wichita more competitive on a national scale.”
The plant will open in the spring of 2023.
