Sioux City History and Culture by Bicycle Part 75: Bekins Building

This very large 5-Story brick and concrete warehouse was built in 1907. In 1927 a fire story addition was constructed. The company is a storage and warehousing business that stores much of the area’s goods in numerous other warehouses all over the city. Companies like GM, Sony, GE store items in Bekins’ Sioux City warehouses prior to shipping out to retailers across the upper Midwest in Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.

Bekins has since replaced their old buildings with newer modern ones. The old buildings serve as a reminder as how warehousing used to be done, multi level with freight elevators and lifts and a few loading docks. Now it is all done on one level with numerous loading docks.

Today the lower part of this old building is used by provate businesses. The main section is abandoned. The building still stands along Wesley Parkway between the 400 and 500 block.

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