By Chandler News
Micah Miranda, Chandler’s economic development director, once predicted the Airpark Area Employment Corridor would overtake the Price Road Corridor in bringing the most jobs to the city.
“That was pre-Intel’s most recent announcement of 3,000 new jobs there,” Miranda said early this month. “I think we’re still on track. That’s going to take longer, for sure.”
Maybe not that much longer.
The Airpark jobs corridor is growing fast with major companies such as Insight, Edwards, Adapt Life Sciences, Viavi, Bestway, and Offerpad all setting up shop near Chandler Municipal Airport.
“We absorbed over a million square feet in the past five quarters,” Miranda said. “Our citywide industrial vacancy rate’s down under 2.9%. We’re still hustling to build product.
“We are experiencing a total boom of onshore manufacturing, and I think it is a validation of what Chandler’s strategy has been for a lot of years now. We know there’s going to be good things coming, we know where we want to be, and we’re sticking to it.”
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors introduced a rezoning request at the end of July for about 12 acres near McQueen and Ryan roads to switch from residential to industrial.
