Spotlight on Lineage in Dallas-Fort Worth: Connecting cold storage and distribution across North Texas
September 03, 2026
The Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas has become one of the country's major food distribution markets. Its central location, large and growing population, strong workforce and easy access to major transportation corridors make North Texas an important hub for food manufacturers and distributors. From DFW, products can move throughout Texas and reach markets across much of the country within a matter of days.
Lineage supports that movement through a network of cold storage facilities across Dallas-Fort Worth. Together, these operations offer more than 239,000 pallet positions and over one million square feet of space, along with specialized warehousing and transportation capabilities.
But the value of the network goes beyond capacity alone. Customers can connect cold storage with frozen consolidation, transportation, rail and specialized warehouse services, bringing more pieces of the cold chain together within one regional network.
A cold storage network positioned for reach in Dallas-Fort Worth
Location matters in food distribution, especially when products need to reach multiple markets on tight timelines.
Dallas-Fort Worth's central U.S. location and major highway connections make it a natural distribution point for food moving throughout Texas and beyond. The size of the DFW market also positions inventory near a large base of consumers and businesses.
Lineage's Dallas-Fort Worth network includes five cold storage facilities across Dallas and Fort Worth. Together, they provide more than one million square feet of space and 239,000+ pallet positions.
Having multiple facilities within the market gives customers access to different capabilities depending on what their products and supply chains require.
Dallas-Fort Worth network at a glance
One connected network across North Texas
More than cold storage across Dallas-Fort Worth
Food doesn't always arrive at a warehouse ready to sit in storage until its next shipment.
Some products require blast freezing while others may benefit from specialized packing programs. Across Dallas-Fort Worth, Lineage offers capabilities including blast freezing, automation and packing programs for dairy and butter.
Different transportation requirements can also determine where and how inventory moves through the network. Temperature-controlled rail adds a unique option for customers in this region. Lineage's Fort Worth Gold Spike facility is rail-served, giving customers another way to move temperature-controlled products into and out of North Texas.
Together, these capabilities allow customers to look beyond available warehouse space and consider what their products may need before, during and after storage.
Frozen LTL and consolidation expand distribution options from Dallas-Fort Worth
Not every shipment requires a full truckload, and different distribution needs call for different solutions.
Through Lineage's Velocities multivendor consolidation program in Fort Worth, products from multiple manufacturers can be consolidated into shared truckloads moving to common retail destinations. This helps customers combine shipments and create more efficient outbound loads.
Separately, Lineage's less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services provide another option for customers that need to move smaller quantities of temperature-controlled freight without filling an entire trailer.
These solutions add more distribution capabilities to the cold storage network across North Texas, giving customers multiple ways to move food to its next destination.
Connect warehousing and transportation as one cold chain network
In a market with plenty of cold storage options, the difference is what customers can connect to that storage.
A customer may need conventional frozen storage today and blast freezing for another product tomorrow. Growing retail distribution could create a need for frozen LTL, while another supply chain may benefit from rail or automated warehousing.
Lineage's advantage in Dallas-Fort Worth comes from connecting these capabilities through a broader cold chain network. Rather than coordinating warehousing, specialized services and transportation through separate vendors and providers, customers can access multiple solutions through one Lineage network and adjust those solutions as their needs evolve.
And those options extend beyond North Texas. Lineage's Dallas-Fort Worth facilities connect to Lineage’s global network of cold storage and transportation resources across Texas, the U.S. and beyond.
A cold chain network designed to grow with customer needs
Cold chain needs change as businesses grow, enter new markets or adapt to new customer requirements.
A company that needs cold storage today may need blast freezing, freight consolidation, rail service or additional capacity tomorrow. Having those capabilities available within a connected network gives customers more room to adapt as those requirements change.
From food moving throughout North Texas to shipments headed for markets across the country, Lineage's Dallas-Fort Worth network brings together cold storage, specialized capabilities and transportation in one of the country's major distribution hubs.
