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With butcher shops lining its streets, the area was known as the city’s original meatpacking district.
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Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Feb. 2026
Fort Worth’s original Swift and Armour meatpacking plants were under construction in 1902 when Sam Rosen, who emigrated from Lithuania, developed Rosen Heights, a neighborhood of single-family houses convenient for Stock Yard workers.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2026
Three decades later, the meatpacking plant opened its doors in Pico Rivera, said Ben Williamson, executive director of Animal Outlook, a national animal advocacy organization.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Hundreds of families may be forced to pack up and leave the town of 11,000, heading east to Omaha or Iowa, or south to the meatpacking towns of Kansas or beyond, causing spinoff layoffs in Lexington’s restaurants, barbershops, grocers, convenience stores and taco trucks.
—Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
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Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Feb. 2026
Fort Worth’s original Swift and Armour meatpacking plants were under construction in 1902 when Sam Rosen, who emigrated from Lithuania, developed Rosen Heights, a neighborhood of single-family houses convenient for Stock Yard workers.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2026
Three decades later, the meatpacking plant opened its doors in Pico Rivera, said Ben Williamson, executive director of Animal Outlook, a national animal advocacy organization.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Hundreds of families may be forced to pack up and leave the town of 11,000, heading east to Omaha or Iowa, or south to the meatpacking towns of Kansas or beyond, causing spinoff layoffs in Lexington’s restaurants, barbershops, grocers, convenience stores and taco trucks.
—Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
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“Meatpacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meatpacking. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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