New $100 million industrial facility to be built in southwest Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Local leaders held a groundbreaking ceremonial Wednesday for a marque caller $100 cardinal concern parkland successful southwest Fresno.

The first-of-its-kind improvement is strategically located connected Nielsen and Marks avenues, conscionable disconnected Highway 180.

The vacant batch volition soon beryllium transformed into the 'Scannell West Gate Industrial Center,' a brand-new concern facility.

"I could archer you this is the biggest woody I've been a portion of it since I've been the politician of the city," says Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer.

The task was met with aboriginal pushback implicit biology concerns erstwhile it was archetypal introduced. It is present 5 years successful the making, arsenic developers underwent 3 rounds of investigation and passed a afloat biology review.

The premier onshore disconnected Highway 180 is zoned industrial, perfect for nationalist developer Scannell Properties, which plans to physique 3 ample buildings totaling implicit 800,000 quadrate feet, lodging six to 8 caller businesses.

"There is tremendous request from our users. So, that could beryllium manufacturers, could beryllium assembly, could beryllium logistics each those antithetic uses," says Todd

Entirely paid done backstage funding, the halfway looks to displacement the economical scenery of the city.

Back successful 2020, Fresno had a 1% vacancy for concern space, making it hard to enactment competitory and bring successful large business.

"We virtually had projects spell to Nevada, spell to Texas, spell to Visalia, oregon spell to Madera. They wanted to beryllium successful Fresno, wherever we person the captious wide and workforce availability, but they could not due to the fact that we deficiency the inventory. For today, with Scannell's task coming online, hopefully aboriginal projects volition travel into the pipeline and we'll beryllium capable to crook that page," says Fresno County Economic Development Corporation President & CEO Will Oliver

Leaders accidental the installation is estimated to make upwards of a 1000 jobs, make taxation revenue, and amended curb entreaty successful the area.

Fresno is already looking astatine different locations for maturation similar South Seda, wherever Mayor Dyer says determination is 800 acres of onshore acceptable for concern space.

"That's an country that we request to instrumentality vantage of successful the future. If we don't, we're going to suffer our competitory edge," helium says.

Developers are not releasing the names of the businesses that volition beryllium coming to the installation but accidental the archetypal gathering is expected to beryllium implicit by June of 2026, and the full task finished wrong the adjacent 3 years.

For quality and upwind updates, travel Brisa Colón connected Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.