Regional Overview

SkyBridge is a game-changing, 435-acre multi-use gateway development​ home to an expedited, joint U.S.-Mexico Customs inspections facility. Strategically located in the rapidly growing, greater Phoenix area, SkyBridge promises businesses more efficiency and more connections with fewer steps.

The construction of a $5.5 billion battery manufacturing complex in Queen Creek, Arizona, announced by LG Energy Solution last year (2023), is on track to be completed in two years with the first round of hiring expected to begin at the end of this year (2024).

Google is making a significant investment in Mesa, Arizona, with plans for a substantial data center campus. Currently, the company is in the early stages of constructing its first data center in the city, a project estimated at $600 million. This initial phase, anticipated to be operational by July 2025, will encompass 288,530 square feet.

Online social media giant Meta Platforms, parent of Facebook, announced an expansion of its Mesa Data Center, with plans to add three new buildings that will increase the campus to five buildings with more than 2.5 million square feet of space. This expansion will raise Meta’s investment in Arizona to more than $1 billion and eventually will be home to more than 200 jobs, along with 2,000 construction workers, an increase from 500 construction jobs announced previously. The complex is scheduled for completion in 2026.

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. today (7/10/24) announced the completion of its new manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona where final assembly of its next-generation Delta spaceships is scheduled to take place starting in Q1 2025.

Amazon.com Inc. has multiple major developments in the works in Mesa. Amazon closed on two large properties totaling about 114 acres, costing the company a total of $35 million. There is also a proposed 2.9 million-square-foot fulfillment center project in the same area that appears to be another Amazon development.

JX Nippon Mining & Metals USA, Inc. is a cutting-edge electronic materials manufacturer with a new 273,000 SF plant under construction, expected to be operational in 2024 and create more than 100 jobs by 2025.

The new plant will contain a large production area, office, welfare facilities, and garden. JX USA will also utilize this site as an incubator for new business development, and intends to make it the center of JX USA’s business in the advanced materials field in the US in the future.

Apple’s Mesa, Arizona facility was originally was built by Tempe-based First Solar Inc, but was never fully occupied. Now the 1.3 million square foot building is one of Apple’s data centers.