Typically, a boarded-up window is a sign of a closed or condemned building with little or no future. But that isn’t the case for a downtown building in Tracy that, while closed for more than a year now after the abrupt closure of the Chasing Our Tails production plant, will soon be given new life.
The former Salmon Chevrolet-Oldsmobile building on 4th St, which was rehabilitated and retrofitted in 2019 to make way for the dog treat plant, has been purchased by the Brian Knochenmus family and will be leased out to Iterro, which produces trū Chitosan — the primary product of Iterro — and trū Protein, both of which are made from trū Shrimp material.
“There’s some opportunity for storage there and possibly manufacturing down the road,” Iterro president and CEO Brian Knochenmuhs told the Tracy Area Headlight Herald on Monday.