By Roland Murphy | AZBEX
Add one more large-scale industrial development to the nearly $2B and 19MSF in Buckeye’s planning and development pipeline. Merit Partners is requesting a site plan approval for Merit Buckeye Industrial Park – a 414KSF building and 136.5KSF outdoor storage yard near the SEC of Turner and Baseline roads.
The site lies approximately one mile west of SR 85. As Carefree Partners VP Scott Phillips discussed at the BEX Companies Leading Market Series September Session: Commercial Real Estate Hot Spots, the area around I-10 and SR 85 is a key industrial development zone both in terms of current projects and long-term vision, in large part because of the future-planned Interstate 11 route. Carefree Partners’ own vision for the area includes the 280-acre Buckeye Apex mixed-use master plan that’s currently undergoing the City of Buckeye’s entitlement process.
According to the planning staff report to the Buckeye Planning and Zoning Commission, Merit Buckeye Industrial Park’s site is surrounded by undeveloped land, with the exception of a few rural home sites on unincorporated Maricopa County land to the south.
