Business View Magazine | July 2019

323 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 Silicon Valley or San Francisco Bay area to open a satellite office or an office over in this region so we can get some of their commuter workforce off the road. They can work more locally, yet they have immediate access to the San Francisco Bay area, back to their headquarters if they need to. I think Valley Link will be a critical component for public transit.” In April 2014, electric car maker, Tesla Motors (based in Palo Alto, CA, about an hour southwest) announced that it would be opening a factory in Lathrop in a 430,000-sq.-ft. facility that was once a Daimler-Chrysler parts distribution center. Other Lathrop-based companies include Home Depot, Del Monte Foods, In-N-Out Burger, and Wayfair. UPS also has its regional distribution center there, and there’s access to freight rail through the Union Pacific intermodal system located within the region. Burcham states, “We have two new industrial parks. One is building 4.85 million square feet within ten buildings; that’s called Tri Point Logistics Center, where Wayfair will be its first tenant. Then, we have another new industrial park, Lathrop Gateway Business Park, with three million square feet and 10 buildings. So in addition to what Susan is talking about with the business center, we do have the industrial portion as well.” Mossdale Village, which abuts the site of the San Joaquin River Bridge, and is located west of I-5 and east of the San Joaquin River, consists of 2,375 units currently under construction as a master planned community, and includes 27 acres of freeway commercial zoning, with Target anchoring nearly one million square feet of retail/office space. Mark Meissner, City of Lathrop Community Development Director, elaborates, “Lathrop has done a really good job in establishing master- planned areas. So along with the River Islands development, we also have a development that has been around for a while called the Central Lathrop Specific Plan, on a 1,540-acre site west of I-5, with plans for up to 6,800 dwelling units, LATHROP , CAL I FORNI A pictured Wayfair building (1,135,653 sf) under construction in the TriPoint Logistics Center