Oakland’s loss is Manteca’s gain.
The pending shift of container traffic away from being processed directly to trucks at the Port of Oakland means about 600 permanent jobs could be created in the Center Point Business Park going in next door to the Union Pacific Railroad truck-to-rail.
The Manteca City Council Tuesday night approved the Northwest Airport Way master plan for 300 acres bounded by Roth Road on the north, Airport Way on the east, Lathrop Road on the south and the UP tracks on the east that includes the 188-acre Center Point project that is proposed for 4 million square feet of distribution centers.
The approval also included a request from the council that the San Joaquin County Local Agency Formation Commission not consider annexing 77 acres on the northeast corner of Lathrop Road and Airport Way or 144 acres in the triangle bounded by Airport Way, Lathrop Road and the railroad tracks. LAFCO staff directed Manteca to consider that for annexation.
The area contains a number of rural homes on an acre or more.
A city staff survey produced a 60 percent response of homeowners with the overwhelming majority indicating that they did not want to annex to the city. The final decision is up to the LAFCO board.
Terry Nash, a vice president of development for Center Point who is overseeing the Manteca project, indicated once they get full entitlement to build that it would take 12 to 14 months to develop the project.
It is designed for large distribution center users ranging from 250,000 to a million square feet. By comparison the Ford Motor Parts distribution center on Spreckels Park is 550,000 square feet.
Nash said the project will generate 1,400 jobs. Of those 800 are construction jobs and 600 would be permanent jobs.
Center Point - which is owned by the California Public Employment Retirement System - is planning to pump $175 million into the project.
San Joaquin Partnership Chief Executive Officer Mike Locke told the council his organization is currently working with 18 different firms interested in locating in a project such as the one Center Point is developing. The partnership has helped locate 375 projects in San Joaquin County during the past 17 years that created 59,000 jobs.
City Manager Steve Pinkerton noted that UP is now going through the environmental review process to expand the intermodal operations to the west of the Center Point site from 220,000 lifts to 700,000 lifts a year. A lift refers to the loading or unloading of a truck trailer for the rail-to-truck - and vice versa operations.
Jim Rachels of MCR Engineering who is working with the Center Point development team said the project would be on par with development standards established in Spreckels Park complete with extensive berming and landscaping to hide the project from adjoining uses. As an example, if you drive down Spreckels Avenue you cannot tell that there is more than 1.8 million square feet of distribution centers on the other side of the landscaped berms.
The City of Lathrop expressed concern over truck traffic from the Center Point project and the impacts it would have on Roth Road and its interchange with Interstate 5. Lathrop also noted constriction traffic is expected to impact Louise Avenue through Lathrop.
Traffic impact fees that Center Point will pay - including a regional fee - could very well go toward paying for improvements on Roth Road in Lathrop. There are two grade crossings of tracks between Center Point and Interstate 5 that Councilman John Harris said he’d like to see ultimately as bridge crossings similar to the one that is now on Lathrop Road across the easterly UP tracks.
Pinkerton noted that part of the traffic impacts of Center Point will be mitigated by being adjacent to the UP intermodal operations and through the use of a private at-grade crossing for future firms to take their trailers to and from the intermodal yard. It is similar to how some other Center Point business parks operate.
An estimated 80 percent of all truck traffic that is ultimately generated off site will use Roth Road to access Interstate 5.
The pending shift of container traffic away from being processed directly to trucks at the Port of Oakland means about 600 permanent jobs could be created in the Center Point Business Park going in next door to the Union Pacific Railroad truck-to-rail.
The Manteca City Council Tuesday night approved the Northwest Airport Way master plan for 300 acres bounded by Roth Road on the north, Airport Way on the east, Lathrop Road on the south and the UP tracks on the east that includes the 188-acre Center Point project that is proposed for 4 million square feet of distribution centers.
The approval also included a request from the council that the San Joaquin County Local Agency Formation Commission not consider annexing 77 acres on the northeast corner of Lathrop Road and Airport Way or 144 acres in the triangle bounded by Airport Way, Lathrop Road and the railroad tracks. LAFCO staff directed Manteca to consider that for annexation.
The area contains a number of rural homes on an acre or more.
A city staff survey produced a 60 percent response of homeowners with the overwhelming majority indicating that they did not want to annex to the city. The final decision is up to the LAFCO board.
Terry Nash, a vice president of development for Center Point who is overseeing the Manteca project, indicated once they get full entitlement to build that it would take 12 to 14 months to develop the project.
It is designed for large distribution center users ranging from 250,000 to a million square feet. By comparison the Ford Motor Parts distribution center on Spreckels Park is 550,000 square feet.
Nash said the project will generate 1,400 jobs. Of those 800 are construction jobs and 600 would be permanent jobs.
Center Point - which is owned by the California Public Employment Retirement System - is planning to pump $175 million into the project.
San Joaquin Partnership Chief Executive Officer Mike Locke told the council his organization is currently working with 18 different firms interested in locating in a project such as the one Center Point is developing. The partnership has helped locate 375 projects in San Joaquin County during the past 17 years that created 59,000 jobs.
City Manager Steve Pinkerton noted that UP is now going through the environmental review process to expand the intermodal operations to the west of the Center Point site from 220,000 lifts to 700,000 lifts a year. A lift refers to the loading or unloading of a truck trailer for the rail-to-truck - and vice versa operations.
Jim Rachels of MCR Engineering who is working with the Center Point development team said the project would be on par with development standards established in Spreckels Park complete with extensive berming and landscaping to hide the project from adjoining uses. As an example, if you drive down Spreckels Avenue you cannot tell that there is more than 1.8 million square feet of distribution centers on the other side of the landscaped berms.
The City of Lathrop expressed concern over truck traffic from the Center Point project and the impacts it would have on Roth Road and its interchange with Interstate 5. Lathrop also noted constriction traffic is expected to impact Louise Avenue through Lathrop.
Traffic impact fees that Center Point will pay - including a regional fee - could very well go toward paying for improvements on Roth Road in Lathrop. There are two grade crossings of tracks between Center Point and Interstate 5 that Councilman John Harris said he’d like to see ultimately as bridge crossings similar to the one that is now on Lathrop Road across the easterly UP tracks.
Pinkerton noted that part of the traffic impacts of Center Point will be mitigated by being adjacent to the UP intermodal operations and through the use of a private at-grade crossing for future firms to take their trailers to and from the intermodal yard. It is similar to how some other Center Point business parks operate.
An estimated 80 percent of all truck traffic that is ultimately generated off site will use Roth Road to access Interstate 5.
