With DeLand
Crossings completed, county sets sights on Tomoka Industrial Park
Volusia County
has completed the construction of the 43-acre DeLand Crossings
Industrial Park on Interstate 4 near the intersection of S.R. 44.
Finished in
just over eight months, the park will contain five manufacturing
companies employing what county economic development officials say
will be nearly 300 new workers.
The first of
these projects will be a 62,000-square-foot production facility
owned by NSI Intellitec Products, a manufacturer of specialty
vehicle components. Another
specialty company, BBK Performance, will occupy another
65,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution center.
BBK is a
California-based manufacturer of automotive aftermarket products.
Both companies are expected to be in operation by mid-2007.
These
companies were recruited by the county’s Department of Economic
Development. Together, they are expected to generate an estimated
$14 million in new capital investment and tax base and provide up to
$5.4 million in area wages.
“We are
excited about the opportunities that DeLand Crossings has created
for our community,” said Rick Michael, director of the county’s
Department of Economic
Development. “Constructing DeLand Crossings has given us the
opportunity of taking an under-utilized tract of public property and
developing it for new tax base and new jobs for our community.”
DeLand
Crossings is designed to generate up to $30 million in new capital
investment once the final three industrial parcels are developed.
Build out of the park is expected by the end of 2008 at which time
the center will be generating more than $500,000 a year in new tax
revenues.
“This has been
a great investment for our community that will help to create and
maintain millions of dollars in high waged jobs for our citizens,”
said County Council member Dwight Lewis, who represents the DeLand
area.
Building on
the success of the DeLand Crossings Industrial Park, the county’s
Department of Economic Development has partnered with the county’s
Solid Waste
Division to focus on the development of another industrial project
that will be situated just off Tomoka Farms Road on the west side of
Daytona Beach near the county’s landfill.
Tomoka
Industrial Park is a 150-acre industrial center near the western
borders of the cities of Daytona Beach and Port Orange.
“We have
completed much of the engineering and permitting of the project and
expect to be able to bid the construction of the first phase of the
park soon,” said County Solid Waste Director Joe Grusauskas.
The county has
been planning an industrial park at its landfill since the mid-
1990s. The park is a site for more intensive manufacturing use or a
site for manufacturers that
require outside storage or produce higher than normal noise or odors
as part of the manufacturing process.
“We have begun
preliminary marketing of the Tomoka Industrial Park with
manufacturing prospects that require outside storage such as
companies that produce building products, asphalts or cements,” said
Michael. “In fact, we have interest by companies that use fiberglass
and other composite materials that create residual odors in the
production process.”
The cost of
constructing the first phase of the Tomoka Industrial Park is
estimated at around $3.5 million. This investment will generate up
to 75 acres of new industrial
parcels with the remaining 75 acres coming on line in a few years as
part of a second phase.
“The
successful bidding of this project should result in a construction
contract being awarded by the County Council after the first of the
year with construction beginning as early as April,” said
Grusauskas.
When complete,
the Tomoka Industrial Park parcels will be leased longterm and will
accommodate up to one million square feet of industrial space valued
at an estimated $75 million. The number of new manufacturing jobs at
the park is estimated at 1,500 or more, according to Michael.
For more
information on the industrial parcels at the Tomoka Industrial Park
please contact Pedro Leon, Project Development Manager, Volusia
County Department of
Economic Development at 386/248-8048.
