Photo via AMPlify Chandler
By InBusiness Phoenix
Phoenix Rising Investments and Willmeng recently completed work on their AMPlify development at 6505 W. Chandler Blvd. in Chandler. The latest AMPlify project transformed a vacant, back-office building into a high-tech manufacturing facility that has a dedicated 50 MW SRP substation for a Fortune 500 corporation.
“On behalf of the City of Chandler, I want to thank Phoenix Rising Investments for their vision and efforts in redeveloping the site,” said Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke who took part in the ceremonial ribbon cutting event at the facility. “When this site was originally acquired in 2019, this building was vacant and underutilized. Amplify had vision; you saw the potential in the building and you brought it back to life.”
The story began in 2018 when PRI Founder and majority owner Michael Hsiung and Willmeng CEO James Murphy toured a vacant back-office building and saw tremendous opportunity. As they made their way to the roof, they looked out over an empty parking lot and an overgrown water retention basin and envisioned what was to become the first (of 5 currently) AMPlify. Over the ensuing six years, the AMPlify team executed this vision by converting the old 157,400 square foot back-office building with a dilapidated parking field into a thriving 200,000 square foot high tech manufacturing facility that includes a dedicated 50MW substation with N-1 redundancy on-site.
