Business View Magazine | September 2019

work closely with those businesses on a day-to- day basis to facilitate their success.” BVM: Is there space available for more of those large facilities? Andrews: “Not really. That’s one of the challenges we face, looking forward. We’ve got about 110 million square feet of industrial or logistic space under roof that’s occupied under historically low vacancy rates of less than four percent. The demand for space is high and the availability is low. We do have some projects that will add up to an additional 20 million square feet in the southwestern portion of our city. Once that is developed, our areas that are set aside for major logistics and supply chain space will be pretty well used up. But that’s a fair amount of additional supply coming online, so we’re optimistic and excited about that. The timeline for those projects is five to eight years, and there is already an initial phase under construction. Our current population is around 177,000. In the next 10 years, the population is expected to more than double because we have large acreage in the south part of the city for residential growth. And we expect to build out 40,000 new homes over the next 10 to 20 years. That will definitely push us up to one of the largest cities in not only California but the whole country.” BVM: What is your planning strategy for all this growth? New Supply Chain Fundamentals program! The Supply Chain Fundamentals Program is designed to prepare adult students to meet all legal requirements for OSHA 10 Training/ Card, Yellow Belt Sigma Training/ Card, and Workforce Skills Certification System (WSCS) in California. Students will experience hands-on training to receive, store, package, and ship real products to real people. If you are interested in partnership or are looking for trained students to employ, please post an employment opportunity at www.baldyviewrop.com/Content2/work or contact us at 909-980-6490