BTS Development Gaining Traction in Phoenix Area

PHOENIX-LGE Design Build has just broken ground on a $9.6-million, 48,000-sf build-to-suit office building. The project is one of 86 in permitting or under construction by the turnkey company, putting it on track to hit $200 million in signed projects this year.

Free Office’s build-to-suit will be situated at Elliot Road and Interstate 10, the latest in a two-month run that yielded roughly $30 million of other projects. The executive search firm’s office building will deliver in early 2009.

The 2008 development docket also includes a $14.2 million, 66,011-sf office/warehouse at 92nd Street and Bahia Drive in Scottsdale for American Audio Visual and $8.1-million, 42,307-sf Higley Village, a retail project at Higley and Baseline roads in Gilbert. Also in the pipeline is a $3.3-million, 31,000-sf office building at Miller and McDonald roads in Scottsdale; $2.6-million, 16,225-sf office project at Price and Frye roads in Chandler for Able Technologies; and the 9,357-sf Mesa Family Medical Center, a $1.3-million project for land at the corner of Stapley and McKellips.