Development has begun on the 820-acre Commerce Crossroads industrial park in Cedar Metropolis, Utah, and the park’s first tenant has begun working there, the builders introduced on Wednesday, Aug. 23.
The venture is being developed by BZI Metal, an space contractor and metal fabricator, and affiliate corporations together with Commerce Crossroads, along with the Utah Inland Port Authority. Upon completion, the event reportedly might be Utah’s first rural inland port. The positioning is in southwestern Utah, inside 6 miles of I-15 and north of Zion Nationwide Park and west of Bryce Canyon Nationwide Park.
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Commerce Crossroads’ first tenant is RailSync, a brand new transloading service that can present short-line rail service to particular person companies and ultimately to future Commerce Crossroads tenants, linking to the Union Pacific.
The commercial park will initially embody workplace buildings, on-site services to construct tailor-made processing amenities for purchasers. The builders anticipate know-how, building materials manufacturing, information facilities, e-commerce and distribution customers to be a part of the combo, in addition to workplace house and housing.
Commerce Crossroads will even be the location of the brand new BZI headquarters, scheduled to interrupt floor subsequent yr.
VISCO, an affiliated common contractor, might be obtainable for build-to-suit contracting companies.
Desert blooming
The park acquired state-level approval in April. A top level view for the event referred to as for an eventual 41 buildings totaling about 8 million sq. ft.
In January, Dalfen Industrial acquired Desert Peaks Logistics Middle in West Jordan, Utah, from the Boyer Co. The newly accomplished industrial park has three buildings totaling 183,792 sq. ft, of which two buildings are preleased.