Another large distribution center is looking to build in northwest Manteca.

The project designed for a beverage distribution center will have 280,983 square feet and will be built along Intermdoal Way within the CenterPoint Intermdoal Center. The location is west of Airport Way.

The site will accommodate 251 parking stalls, 40 truck docks, 56 trailer stalls, and three truck bays.

It is in addition to other distribution center projects moving forward in the immediate area.

A 141,360-square-foot so-called “last mile” e-commerce distribution center is being pursued south of 5.11 Tactical on Airport Way that is expected to add 1,010 vehicle trips a day.

Fehr & Peers — the same traffic consultant that gave the Chick-fil-A project a green light after determining it would not impact the flow of traffic on Yosemite Avenue contends the e-commerce distribution center will add 556 employee trips, 400 trips involving walk-in vans, and 54 heavy duty semi-trucks on a daily basis.

While the projected employee trips seems to mirror the 257 passenger vehicle parking spaces the project is being required to have, that is not the case with the walk-in vans similar to what United Parcel Service and Federal Express employ.

There are 854 parking spaces planned for the project that are designed specifically for walk-in vans. Fehr & Peers is contending there will only be 400 trips involving walk-in vans. Given each van has to depart on its route as well as return which constitutes either two trips or one complete trip based on Fehr & Peers methodology, the project will have either capacity to eventually handle either twice the number of van trips the traffic consultant depicts in the environmental impact report or three times the capacity based on the fact the developer is investing in parking spaces for 854 walk-up vans.

It is being designed as a “last mile” distribution center. That means products will be brought from other distribution centers by semi-trucks. Then orders will be filled and distributed via vans. Typically “last mile” can involve customers several blocks away up to 100 miles away. The center will have 15 truck loading docks.

The city also is vetting documents for the CenterPoint South Project. It consists of two buildings designed as warehouses with truck loading docks. One is 52,029 square feet and the other is 47,485 square feet.

Those two structures will be built on the west side of Airport Way south of Crothall Laundry.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com