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Austin: Spreckels on steroids
Mantecas next big thing in business parks
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Palm Avenue is just south of the northern boundary of the 1,049-acre Austin Road Business Park. - photo by HIME ROMERO
Salty snacks started the stampede to Spreckels Park.Now Bill Filios is on the hunt for the next Frito-Lay to do the same thing for Manteca’s next big thing - the 1,049-acre Austin Road Business Park and its promise of 13,000 jobs.“There are companies out there right now that are looking for a million or more square feet for distribution centers,” said Filios of ANF Development, the lead developers of Austin Road Business Park.Austin Road - now that it has a vested map and has been annexed to the city - is in the hunt to land one of the new generation of mega-distribution centers.The right “seed project” would start the development ball rolling. It worked for Spreckels Park in 1999 when then AKF Development‘s commercial real estate broker was able to convince Frito-Lay that Manteca was ideal to consolidate their Stockton and Modesto operations into one location. This time around, the big draw is Manteca’s central location to 18 million consumers within 100 miles.