DSV Air & Sea Inc. — a Danish transport and logistics company — is building a regional corporate headquarters and distribution hub at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport with 1.7 million square feet of warehouse, truck courts and logistics space.
The planned look and landscaping for the DSV Legacy Business Park industrial development on 88 acres north of Pecos Road and east of Ellsworth Road were discussed Oct. 17 by the Mesa Design Review Board. No formal action was taken by the board. Chair Scott Thomas was absent.
Primary access will be from Pecos Road with truck-only egress to Ellsworth Road.
“It is a just over 1.7 million square feet. There are 420 parking spots proposed and 321 truck bays,” Staff Planner Joshua Grandlienard said at the meeting.
“They are looking to locate plantings within the drainage channel as well as on the north side of that. As part of their screening elements they are having berming between zero and 3 feet and then a wall placed on top of that and then view fencing for a total of 8 feet tall. And then on that you will have plantings on the side as well as ... a butterfly garden, as well as a seating area and an amenity space for the clientele as well as users of the space to where it comes off the pedestrian access to Pecos,” he said.
Dennis Newcombe of Phoenix law firm Gammage & Burnham is the applicant. Mesa BA Land LLC is the owner.
The property is vacant and was annexed into the city and rezoned to light industrial with a planned-area development overlay in 2022. The Legacy Business Park project will be developed in a single phase, according to a written project narrative.
The development includes warehouse space, truck courts and logistics space with 50-foot internal clear heights between bays, with an overall building height of a maximum of 60 feet; four satellite offices at 2,580 square feet per office for a total of 10,320 square feet; and a two-story, 30,000-square-foot corporate office, it states.
“The proposed logistics facility is envisioned as a strategic hub for transport throughout the United States due to its proximity to the Mesa Gateway Airport/SkyBridge with an expedited, joint U.S.-Mexico customs inspections facility and other major transportation corridors (e.g., State Route 24, Loop 202/Santan Freeway, Interstate 10, freight rail network existing/proposed, etc.),” according to the narrative.
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 H. Dyer can be reached at rdyer@iniusa.org, or on X @rhdyer. To voice your opinion on this story, connect with us at AzOpinions@iniusa.org.
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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