A 47-foot-tall, 1,200,340-square-feet industrial building is to be constructed south of Pecos Road on the east side of the Crismon Road alignment in Mesa.
Preliminary design for the 85.8-acre industrial development recently was discussed by the Mesa Design Review Board.
Parking spaces will be in front of the building, with truck docks and additional parking on the north and south sides, Staff Planner Cassidy Welch told the board during a Jan. 11 meeting.
“The site is currently undeveloped. The site plan is for a large-scale industrial building totaling approximately 1,200,000 square feet. The proposed building will be 47 feet in height, and the site will be accessed from Crismon Road,” she said.
Materials are concrete tilt-up panels in four colors, split-face concrete masonry units, concrete formliner and a glass storefront. The landscape plan shows desert willow, coral gum, palo verde, sweet acacia and Mexican pine, according to city documents.
The building is part of The Cubes at Mesa Gateway, which is to have up to 4 million square feet of speculative and build-to-suit space on a 268-acre site, according to the city of Mesa’s website.
“This is the first building in that development, so we’ll be back here four different times over the next couple of years,” Mark Sonnenberg, CRG senior vice president and partner of the Southwest region, told the board. “We have a user committed to the building — this is a build-to-suit — and some of the color scheme incorporates their corporate colors. It’s a large national retailer and so this incorporates some of the colors in their color scheme.”
Jason Morris of Withey Morris PLC is the applicant. Hannah Kiem of CRG is the owner.
The project includes a drive-entry gatehouse, associated truck staging lanes for entry and exiting, and a truck refueling station. A total of 304 automobile parking spaces and 775 trailer parking spaces are planned, according to a project narrative from Withey Morris PLC.
“The use will be adequately served by the proposed parking provided in the design, which is 304 spaces. This quantity of parking spaces supports 912 employees, visitors and staff in a three-shift operation. A shift change involving a 100-person staff would require 200 spaces for concurrent use. Visitors to the building should be minimal for this kind of storage operation and might include vendors visiting by appointment — up to four spaces,” it states.
The all-volunteer Mesa Design Review Board is unique in that its composition is set by the zoning ordinance to include two architects; two from other design professions such as landscape architecture, engineering, urban planning, interior design or other design-related background; one contractor or developer; and two residents, according to the city’s website.
Richard Dyer Managing Editor | East Valley @RHDyer
Meet Richard Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA since 1987, starting his career in Apache Junction as a copy editor and being promoted over the years to work as the editor of the Mesa Independent, news services editor for the East Valley office in Apache Junction, managing editor for the East Valley office, news services editor for the East Valley office and eventually also for the newspapers at INI’s then-Chandler office, managing editor again and as a news editor covering Apache Junction/Gold Canyon and Queen Creek. He helped start the Florence Independent while the news editor covering Apache Junction and Mesa news. In January 2023, he became associate managing editor for the East Valley newspapers and in August 2023 became managing editor for the East Valley newspapers of Chandler/Tempe, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Florence, Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, while also reporting on Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
Community: Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
Education: University of Arizona with a master of arts in journalism and a bachelor of science in agricultural communication. Also continuing education at Mesa Community College in welding in a metal art sculpture class.
Random fact: Saw his first tornado on May 31, 2010, which was classified as an EF-2, as part of a stormchasing tour group.
Hobbies: He is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows.
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