The Blue Diamond Growers facility will be winding down operations and leaving its historic midtown Sacramento plant, the company announced Friday. About 600 workers will be impacted by the closure, according to Blue Diamond.

Blue Diamond received some $20 million worth of incentives to keep its plant in midtown, as local politicians feared the move that will now happen.

Hundreds of Blue Diamond Growers employees in Sacramento will lose their jobs after the company announced Friday that it will shut down operations at its Midtown plant. Blue Diamond said it plans to streamline its operations at its Turlock and Salida locations because the roughly 50-acre Sacramento plant has become "too costly and inefficient.