On Friday, the Business and Economic Development Board of the Governor's Office of Economic Development approved a restructured incentive package for Maryland-based U.S. Foodservice, which plans to invest $29 million in Weber County.

U.S. Foodservice has a facility in the Freeport Center Building in Clearfield. It is expanding its facility with a new building in Ogden, said Mike Nelson, GOED director of recruitment and incentives.

In April, GOED approved a package that would provide U.S. Foodservice $2.5 million in tax rebates on income earned after the new center becomes operational.

Nelson said the package was rewritten in order to give U.S. Foodservice some money up front to aid its expansion. The company will receive $1 million when the building is completed and up to $1 million in tax rebates over the ensuing decade.

The expansion originally was to be built in Pleasant View, a small community north of Ogden. That plan was canceled because the building would have infringed on wetlands, Nelson said.

David Hansel, manager of the U.S. Foodservice center in Clearfield, was unavailable Friday.

U.S. Foodservice has pledged to create 225 jobs, which will bring total employment to 450 to 475 jobs. Under the deal, the company must keep its operations in Utah for 10 years. And new employees must earn at least 150 percent of the Weber County median wage, according to GOED.

U.S. Foodservice has said the new jobs will average $41,000, or 192 percent of the county median wage of $21,500.

The company estimates it will pay $73.1 million in wages over the 10-year period. New state tax revenue is projected to be $8.9 million, according to GOED.

U.S. Foodservice is the No. 2 food distribution company in the country. Amsterdam-based Royal Ahold, the world's largest food distributor, owns the company through its Ahold USA subsidiary, according to Hoover's, a business information Web site owned by Dun and Bradstreet.

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