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Amazon.com plans distribution center in NLV

Book seller move adds 300 permanent jobs to economy, gives area more cache

BY TONY ILLIA

Amazon.com, the online retail giant, is opening a distribution center in North Las Vegas. The company signed a five-year, $8.6 million lease to occupy 283,920 square feet of industrial space inside ProLogis Park North at 3837 Bay Lake Trail. The center will be used to fulfill Amazon.com Web orders throughout the southwestern United States. Colliers International's Daniel Doherty, Patti Dillon, and Suzette LaGrange represented the lessor, Denver-based developer ProLogis, in the transaction.

Amazon.com, which has its stock traded on the Nasdaq National Market (ticker: AMZN), recorded $17.13 billion in revenue last year. The Seattle company's Southern Nevada plant will create 300 local full-time jobs and 200 seasonal positions. Amazon.com hopes to have its new plant up and operating in October, ahead of the Christmas shopping rush.

"Despite a sluggish economy, businesses are still growing and looking to locate in North Las Vegas," said Mike Majewski, economic development director for the city of North Las Vegas. "Amazon's decision to open its Southern Nevada fulfillment facility in North Las Vegas ratchets our public profile among the national business community, while also adding a significant amount of new jobs that will help diversify our economic base."

COURTESY UNITED CONSTRUCTION CO.
Amazon, the online retail giant, is opening a 283,920-square-foot distribution center inside ProLogis Park North in North Las Vegas. United Construction Co. completed the big-box industrial building late last year.

COURTESY DANOSKI CLUTTS BUILDING GROUP
Danoski Clutts is building the Desert Marketplace shopping center at Warm Springs Road and Durango Drive.

COURTESY HCI-HARDY CONSTRUCTION
HCI-Hardy Construction recently completed an 18-acre Clark County community park at Buffalo Drive and Flamingo Road.

Amazon.com will be inside the $16.5 million, "Building 16," which United Construction Co. completed in September 2007. The 513,240-square-foot concrete tilt-wall structure is located inside a 102-acre master-planned business park at Alexander Avenue and Pecos Road. The 43-foot building, on 26.8 acres, is one of the largest speculative industrial buildings ever built in Southern Nevada. It can house the equivalent of 13 football fields with room to spare. The structure, designed by BJG Architecture + Engineering, measures 470 feet wide by 1,092 feet long. It required 128 concrete panels to construct with the largest piece weighing 84 tons.

"We used a 300-ton mobile crane that tilted panels at an average speed of eight-and-a-half minutes per panel," said Don Green, United's project superintendent. "The entire building went-up within a couple of days."

Amazon.com opened a 786,000-square-foot order fulfillment facility in Fernley, 25 miles east of Reno, in 1999. It has more than 1,000 employees and nine miles of conveyor belts. On its busiest days, Amazon.com customers order 2.1 million items a day or 24 per second. The North Las Vegas building marks the firm's first foray into the Southern Nevada market.

PROJECTS

Impact Development recently broke ground on phase two of the $35 million, 130,000-square-foot Durango Commons Business Park at Durango Drive and Windmill Lane in Las Vegas. Breslin Builders is design-build contractor. The second phase consists of a two-story, 56,000-square-foot office building that is scheduled to be completed in the second quarter of 2009.

Danoski Clutts Building Group is constructing the $4.8 million, 107,000-square-foot Desert Marketplace shopping center at the southeast corner of Warm Springs Road and Durango Drive in Las Vegas. The five-building complex, on 40 acres, features Big 5 Sporting Goods, Petco and TJ Maxx as tenants. The project, designed by Architects Orange, is scheduled to finish in October.

HCI-Hardy Construction recently completed a $4.5 million, 18-acre Clark County community park at Buffalo Drive and Flamingo Road in Las Vegas. The complex consists of dog runs, playgrounds, recreational fields, barbecues, benches, and picnic areas. Poggemeyer Design Group was the architect.

HCI-Hardy Construction is also performing a $3.1 million renovation of Petitti Park at 2505 N. Bruce St. in North Las Vegas. The project, on 10 acres, includes new walkways, play equipment, benches, shade and picnic areas, improved lighting, turf, and irrigation. The upgrades will finish in March 2009.

Ninyo & Moore is providing quality control, grading observation, and materials testing and inspection services on the five-story, 67,000-square-foot Lou Ruvo Brain Institute now under construction in downtown Las Vegas. Whiting-Turner Construction Co. is the general contractor. The $70 million complex, designed by Frank Gehry, is inside Union Park at Bonneville Avenue and Grand Central Parkway. The project is scheduled to finish this year.

D&K Landscape is performing $1.3 million in landscaping for Fairfield Development's new 23-acre, 739-unit apartment complex at 7545 Oso Blanca Road in northwest Las Vegas. The work entails irrigation and groundcover installation as well as tree and shrub planting. Irvine, Calif.-based ima+design is the landscape architect. The project is expected to finish in late 2009.

MILLION-DOLLAR DEALS

Special Dispatch signed a five-year, $1.558 million lease for 39,929 square feet of industrial space inside Arrowhead Commerce Center at 3755 E. Post Road, Suite 140 and 150, in Las Vegas. Grubb & Ellis' Jen Levine represented the tenant; Colliers International's Spencer Pinter represented the lessor, EJM Development Co. The reported average rent equals 65 cents per square foot.

Contact reporter Tony Illia at 702-303-5699 or tonyillia@aol.com

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