By Roland Murphy for AZBEX
Martens Development Company plans to build an eight-building, 909.6KSF industrial park on 63.18 acres at Ellsworth and Willis roads in Mesa.
The Mesa Design Review Board discussed the building elevations and landscape design at its March 14 meeting.
According to the submitted project narrative, The Brickyards on Ellsworth “is a master planned business park with employment, manufacturing and technology uses as the primary uses, and other employment uses as secondary uses. The mix of building options, and build-to-suit configurations are designed to make this site fit for the variety of employment uses that Mesa desires to locate and retain in the Gateway district.”
The site is zoned Light Industrial/Planned Area Development Overlay with vacant parcels surrounding it on all sides.
The eight buildings’ footprints are planned as follows:
- 69.384SF,
- 95,160SF,
- 35,398SF,
- 35,398SF,
- 47,705SF,
- 59,780SF,
- 259,554SF, and
- 306,094SF.
In terms of use, each building will be divided between 90% warehouse and 10% office space. The narrative addresses this combination by saying, “Modern business parks and manufacturing facilities are attracting and hosting more sophisticated corporate users. Such companies are increasingly combining executive offices, with manufacturing, warehousing, and e-commerce. The emerging focus on integrated logistics supply chains and seamless customer experiences are resulting in an overlap of office and industrial uses; previously distinctive and separate project types are now more often combined and integrated.”
According to the submitted project narrative, Martens Development Company is the developer. The architect is Ware Malcomb. The landscape architect is Studio DPA, and the engineer is Hunter Engineering.
