-March 5,2022-
Plans for two new large industrial buildings were highlighted in recent weeks as Seefried Industries and Fowler Packing each filed new plans for warehouses in the booming Visalia Industrial Park.
Seefried, based in Phoenix, is the same company who is well underway on construction of a 1.1 million sf facility for Ace Hardware right next door to this new 535,540sf “speculative” building on 39 acres. The Ace building is on 80 acres.The two parcels were acquired at the same time.
Seefried’s latest project is at the NE corner of Ave 76 and W Goshen are just south of Ace. As a spec project no tenant for this project has been announced. The complex includes parking for 545 cars and 1760 trailer parking stalls.
Access to the site will be from N Plaza Drive to the east and Route 76 to the west. There is a private access road to the north (From Plaza Drive) that will provide two full-access driveways with code required fire access around the perimeter.
Construction ground-breaking is estimated to occur in the 4th Quarter of 2022 and full completion of the project in 2023. Construction operations will adhere to all state, regional and local requirements, says the operational statement filed by the developer.
This facility could accommodate both a single or multi-tenant end user(s) (designed for 1-4 tenants).
The second building project is being proposed by Fowler Packing (G4 Enterprises,LTD)who is the Parnagian family based in Fresno.Called the Duarte Industrial project , this is a 15 acre warehouse east of N. Kelsey Street and south of W. Goshen Avenue. This the second filing of the project at site plan review after initial comments were received by the developer.
The proposed development consists of the construction and operation of an office/warehouse style, concrete tilt-up shell building that is approximately 313,000 square feet. The proposed building will have four (4) offices and approximately 48 loading docks on the south side of the building. The project will provide approximately 382 standard parking stalls for employee parking including eight (8) ADA stalls and future EV charging stations.
Access to the site is provided off of N. Kelsey Street. Operational times are typical of warehouse style facilities and may operate up to 24 hours a day and 7 days a week since it will be a warehouse for distribution of goods.
G4 Enterprises Ltd is not new to Visalia having acquired Midstate 99 Distribution Center, a 790,000-square-foot industrial complex in Visalia, for $33.4 million in 2017.
G4 has been busy in Fresno where they brought in Amazon west of Highway 99 a few years ago. Now the developer is being thwarted on expanding in West Fresno due to opposition from community groups. At the same time, negotiations with community groups lead to an agreement from G4 to reinforce homes in south central Fresno in response to added traffic from a second Amazon sorting facility near the first.
At a hearing last spring, developer Leland Parnagian noted that “The U.S. is really undergoing a shift in how people buy things from in-store to online and that’s really driving changes in employment around the country.”
Also in Fresno, Seefried is breaking ground on a second “last mile delivery” warehouse in Fresno for Amazon.No such facility is known to be happening in Visalia, as of yet.