Sussex board set to vote on Allen Harim application

The Sussex County Board of Adjustment is expected to vote at its 7 p.m., Monday, May 7 meeting on a special-use exception application filed by Allen Harim Foods for a chicken deboning plant near Millsboro.

Allen Harim has plans to convert 50,000 square feet of the 453,000-square-foot building it owns into a deboning operation. Another 20,000 square feet of the facility is being renovated into the company's corporate headquarters.

The facility was used as a pickle processing plant for 40 years.

Under the proposal, processed chicken would be trucked from Allen Harim's Harbeson plant to Millsboro for deboning, packaging and shipping. Officials said they would hire 165 employees.

The waste bone material and wastewater would be shipped back to the Harbeson plant for disposal.