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Rehrig Pacific has damaged floor on an injection molding manufacturing plant in metro Phoenix. The ability, positioned in Buckeye, Ariz., is anticipated to open in late April 2024.
A 260,000-square-foot facility can be constructed within the undertaking’s first part. The location has extra room for incremental progress, which might in the end convey the ability’s sq. footage to 500,000 sq. toes. Rehrig Pacific has eight manufacturing amenities throughout North America.
The undertaking’s development comes at a time of fast financial progress in Arizona’s West Valley and all through the state at giant. Sandra Watson, president & CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority, famous in a press release that the manufacturing trade within the area is rising at a very fast tempo.
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Phoenix leads the U.S. in industrial pipeline dimension towards complete inventory, with a current CommercialEdge report exhibiting that space had greater than 54 million sq. toes of business area underneath development in February 2023. This accounted for 15.7 p.c of inventory. One of many causes for such fast progress is that the Phoenix metro presents strong and environment friendly provide chain infrastructure that may present ample logistical help, Higher Phoenix Financial Council President & CEO Chris Camacho stated in ready remarks.
Hammes Companions just lately started establishing Buckeye Medical Plaza within the metropolis. The 48,000-square-foot medical workplace constructing is anticipated to be full in early 2024. Late final 12 months, the Howard Hughes Corp. broke floor on Teravalis, a mixed-use master-planned neighborhood in Buckeye, Ariz. Additionally investing within the metropolis was Cohen Asset Administration, which acquired a newly-constructed logistics property totaling 862,622 sq. toes in June.
Excessive-tech battery producer KORE Energy and battery recycling firm Ecobat have each just lately chosen Buckeye to host industrial tasks. Idaho-based KORE broke floor on KOREPlex, a $1.25 billion gigafactory within the city, final 12 months. Ecobat, in the meantime, is growing its third lithium-ion battery recycling middle in Buckeye.
