150,000-SF Building Project Spurs Consolidation

SCOTTSDALE, AZ-One of the state’s largest employers will consolidate its office space from five locations in the Valley into a 150,000-sf office that the company is having built in north Scottsdale.

Discount Tire, which has about 1,300 employees in Arizona, is having a new headquarters built at the northeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Thompson Peak Parkway. Construction is set to begin in August, with Discount expected to move in by October 2002. Opus West is developing the project for Discount Tire and will own the building, which is near the Grayhawk residential community.

The tire and wheel retailer and service center, which operates 450 stores nationwide, wanted to keep its main headquarters in Scottsdale, says Bob Holman, executive vice president. The new headquarters will initially house 250 employees.