No less than 12 commercial projects are now under construction or about to break ground in Manteca including a pair of car washes that represent a private sector investment in excess of $130 million.

The car washes include the city’s third Quick Quack location along South Main Street in the Marketplace at Main to the east of the new Save Mart that is under construction and south of where Manteca’s fifth McDonald’s is being built on the corner of Atherton and Main.

The center is where the city’s second Chipotle’s and the sixth freestanding (and eighth overall) Starbucks are being built.

The other car wash will be in the 1900 block of East Yosemite (East Highway 120) on land between Vasconcellos Avenue and Pestana Avenue that backs up to Almond Blossom Estates and has been vacant for years.

It will also include a fueling station and convenience store.

That project is the first new commercial endeavor on East Highway 99 in more than seven years.

The fueling station is expected to capitalize on commuter traffic and people driving to and from the Gold Country and Sierra.

There are two existing gas stations east of Highway 99, including an ARCO that has been the city’s top — or almost top — free-standing gas station/ convenience store for fuel sales for years.

There is a second phase to the project planned that includes retail space.

In September 2025, plans were submitted in the 1800 block of East Yosemite — diagonally across the intersection from the car wash/gas station/convenience store — for another gas station and a convenience store.

The proposal on the southside of East Yosemite Avenue includes a building with space for six smaller retail businesses. It is on a parcel immediately east of the entry to El Rancho Mobile Home Park.

Kaiser is most

expensive project

The Kaiser Permanente emergency department expansion project at $83.4 million is the most expensive non-residential project now underway in Manteca.

The emergency department expansion includes 34 treatment bays, a relocated ambulance drop-off on West Yosemite Avenue, a new walk-in emergency waiting area and drop-off with access from St. Dominics Drive, a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) imaging trailer, and a relocated existing computed tomography (CT) trailer.

The new 27,450-square-foot building will be located to the south of the existing hospital, parallel to West Yosemite Avenue.

A landscaped median with protected turn pockets will be installed on the four-lane West Yosemite Avenue arterial.

The current 4,000 square-foot, 11-bay emergency department will be renovated to include additional and support space as part of a separate tenant improvement project after completion of the project

There will be 112 additional parking spaces added to give the overall campus of 646 spaces or 80 more than required.

In addition, traffic signals will be installed at Yosemite and St. Dominic’s Drive.

The city has already conditioned future development to the west and south of Kaiser to place a roundabout at Fishback and Yosemite.

Ford expansion

& Tractor Supply

Among the other permits is a 141,960 square-foot expansion of the existing 500,000 square-foot Prologis building leased to Ford for its small parts West Coast distribution center on Spreckels Avenue.

California Gold Development has been issued a permit for the 21,702 square-foot Tractor Supply Co. store being built on North Union Road to the north of CVS Drug Store that will be 3,000 square feet larger than the chain's Ripon location.

The Manteca project includes what will be Manteca’s third Dutch Bros location.

Among other endeavor under construction are Manteca’s third Save Mart and its second Food 4 Less.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantcabulletin.com