GRAND HAVEN TWP., MI (WHTC) – Michigan’s largest wholesale nursery stock grower could close this fall.
In a notice filed yesterday with the Michigan Workforce Development Agency, Zelenka Farms said that it “may not consummate a necessary transaction or receive funding to continue operations” at its location south of Grand Haven after September 9th. Parent company BFN Operations filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas last month, and trade publications claim that buyers are being sought to take over the six farms that the suburban Dallas-based firm operates.
At least 300 workers would stand to lose their jobs at Zelenka, part of over 15 hundred BFN currently employs nationwide. Zelenka was founded 71 years ago and was sold to a Chicago investment group in 2000 for 58 million dollars.
