Giant Eagle plans Crafton cold storage warehouse.

Company won't talk; price may be $20 million or more

WEST END - O'Hara-based Giant Eagle Inc., the region's largest supermarket chain, is apparently planning to build a massive 400,000-square-foot cold storage facility close to its Crafton warehouse.

The price is upward of $20 million, according to sources in the real estate community.

That's also the amount Giant Eagle took out in a January mortgage from Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co., according to documents filed with the Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds.

Giant Eagle did not return calls. Pittsburgh's largest private company is notoriously tight-lipped. It employs more than 4,450 and had …