By Nick Kanavati | Pinal Post
A California-based manufacturer of concrete building components could bring 100 to 150 jobs to Coolidge after the City Council unanimously approved the Clark Pacific Coolidge rezoning on July 13, 2026. Of that total, Clark Pacific representative Terry Street preliminarily estimated only about eight to ten employees would relocate from California, and said the company hoped to fill the rest locally. The proposed Clark Pacific Coolidge plant would sit on a 160-acre site near the northwest corner of South Highway 87 and East Hanna Road.
The 160-acre site sits near the northwest corner of South Highway 87 and East Hanna Road — a stretch of Pinal County already home to large industrial and correctional operations. The rezoning changes the property from Agricultural (AG) to General Industrial (I-2)
Development Services Director James Myers told the Council the company had advertised approximately 140 openings. “They had 600 applications, job applications, from that one Facebook post that they did last week,” Myers said.
Terry Street of Street Consulting described the hiring approach at the June 10, 2026 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. “We are in the business of manufacturing precast concrete, from structural precast to architectural precast,” Street said. He continued, “We look to bring very few people out of California, and would employ anywhere from 100 to 150 people here with maybe eight or ten max coming from us. So it would be all local hires.”
Street later called those figures preliminary estimates. Furthermore, he described the skilled trades the plant will need. “We’re gonna need guys that can bend rebar well, run batch plants, place finished concrete,” he said. Additionally, he said recruitment may reach beyond city limits. “Our hope is to find them all locally in here, but it may have to go to Casa Grande, to Eloy, or wherever to fill the needs of the job.”
Clark Pacific also plans to build on-site facilities and source materials locally. Street said the company intends to “put a brand-new batch plant on the property,” among other on-site work, and to buy “aggregates, rock and cement” locally, among other supplies.
Clark Pacific manufactures prefabricated precast concrete building systems. According to company materials, the product lines include structural systems for data centers, prefabricated power infrastructure, insulated wall panels, structural systems for laboratory facilities, and parking structures.
The AccelCore™ line delivers full structural systems for data centers. Meanwhile, AccelGen™ provides prefabricated buildings and platforms for onsite power generation. AccelGen configurations can support backup diesel generators, fuel cells, batteries, switchgear, and transformers.
Clark Pacific’s published materials list 32 data centers totaling more than 13 million square feet of structural and enclosure work and more than 2,216 megawatts of capacity.
At the June meeting, Street said the Coolidge plant would serve regional demand. “We have projects in New Mexico, Texas, and even south of here in Tucson that we’d rather manufacture here and deliver in a shorter distance,” he said.
Street cited what he described as Clark Pacific’s work on Apple’s Cupertino headquarters to illustrate the company’s manufacturing speed. “I invite people to look up Clark Pacific on the internet. Their two main plants are in West Sacramento, but they completed an entire Apple headquarter building in Cupertino, if you’ve seen that crazy spaceship,” Street said. He added, “95% of that building was precast concrete. And Clark Pacific managed to put up manufacture, and then at the job site erect, 5.8 million square feet of building in 11 months.”
According to Clark Pacific’s materials, structural components can be manufactured offsite while site and foundation work proceed at the same time.
Street said in June that the company hoped to begin manufacturing by the end of summer 2026. “We would love to be manufacturing literally end of summer. So we are serious about rocking and rolling,” he said.
