Southwest Industry News for May 2022

The Player Development Center offers views of the Papago Buttes and Camelback Mountain to the north and Four Peaks to the east.
Photo courtesy of San Francisco Giants

SF Giants Player Development Center Opens at Papago Park

The new San Francisco Giants Player Development Center at Papago Park in Phoenix allows the team to prepare players and coaches for both the minor and major league seasons.

The 33-acre site includes six outdoor practice fields, an agility field and covered exterior pitching lanes, a main clubhouse, an indoor practice facility with eight indoor batting lanes and a new field maintenance building. The complex was designed by Populous and built by Okland, with site and field contractor Frontier Golf and landscape architect iN2iT among the other consultants.

The 50,000-sq-ft clubhouse has five player locker rooms, locker rooms for coaches, a weight room, player training space and hydrotherapy on the ground floor. The center opened in February.

Clayco Relocates Southwest Headquarters To The Grove

Clayco has signed a lease for a 36,000-sq-ft space in The Grove, a new mixed-use campus being built in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood. Clayco will move into the new space by January 2023.

This new location will accommodate the rapid local growth of Clayco and its subsidiaries CRG, Lamar Johnson Collaborative and Concrete Strategies.
The company’s Phoenix operations now include approximately 80 local hires, and its projects span more than 6 million sq ft of industrial distribution and manufacturing projects in Glendale and Mesa as well as several mixed-use residential high-rises in downtown Phoenix.

Large Industrial Development Gets Underway in Southern Nevada

VanTrust Real Estate has started work on its latest industrial project, Vantage North, which is planned to house more than 4.5 million sq ft of distribution facilities. Vantage North is 2.5 miles north of the Interstate 15 and Speedway Boulevard interchange.

The 350-acre property is the gateway to Apex Industrial Park, which encompasses 18,000 acres of land, including 7,000 developable acres. Infrastructure and sitework is already underway at Vantage North, and the first two speculative industrial buildings are scheduled to get underway in December.

Vantage North will have all infrastructure and site grading complete by the end of the year. The first two speculative buildings will be approximately 450,000 and 600,000 sq ft and are scheduled to be complete in October 2023.