COOR’S PART OF MAJOR BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTION
The largest beverage distribution facility in the region may soon join Amazon, Tactical 5.11, and Lowe’s Home Improvement (Penske Logistics) in the CenterPoint Business Park in northwest Manteca.
It will contain a 20,000 square-foot keg box designed specifically for Coors beer. It will be kept at a constant 38 degrees. Most of the beverages will not be refrigerated.
The overall building will consist of 295,176 square feet of space.
The final study and mitigated negative declaration for the proposed GBx Manteca project is now being circulated by the City of Manteca.
The project’s site is to the west of the Crothall Laundry and borders the Union Pacific tracks in the business park that is on the southwest corner of Airport Way and Roth Road.
The location is almost at the epicenter of the growing Northern San Joaquin Valley market that’s home to not only 1.2 million consumers but contains five of the fastest growing cities and communities in California — Tracy, Manteca, Mountain House, Lathrop, and Ripon — as well as Modesto and Stockton.
It is separated from Lathrop Road by land zoned for general commercial.
The site which was previously approved for a container yard will be accessed via Intermodal Way.
The beverage distribution facility will generate 132 truck trips per day as well as 530 passenger vehicle trips.
The site will have parking for 241 cars as well as 56 trailer stalls.
The GBx represents a niche distribution market that Manteca is seeking to capitalize on.
Manteca is roughly 15 miles from Tracy, Modesto, and Stockton and as such is at the epicenter of 1.2 million consumers in the fastest growing region in California.
Firms have been looking to Manteca to consolidate operations for increased efficiency. Over the year examples are J&M Farm Equipment that replaced separate facilities in Modesto and Stockton with one in Manteca on Spreckels Avenue.
Another example is Frito-Lay. The firm also closed separate locations in Modesto and Stockton and consolidated them into one location on Spreckels Avenue as well.
Manteca has easy freeway access to the Tracy, Modesto, and Stockton areas.
Besides the efficiency of one location versus two or three, such consolidation can reduce the time and gas costs for deliveries.
It is why Amazon picked Manteca five years ago to launch its regional Amazon Prime service from a location off of Louise Avenue adjacent to the Manteca Unified School District office complex.
The actual footprint of the proposed distribution center will be just over 280,000 square feet or almost exactly twice the floor space as the Manteca Costco. That’s because it will include second floor space of 14,193 square feet that is part of the office area.
Some 20,000 square feet will have refrigerated storage for beer kegs that need to be kept at 38 degrees. There will also be a refrigerated area of 10,000-square feet at 58 degrees
The structure will have 40 truck docks as well as three bays for truck maintenance.
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