Before the Warehouses, the Water Had to Move
Before a single cross-dock facility could rise on this 180-acre site in Buckeye, Arizona, our team had to solve a problem that no amount of grading could fix on its own. Significant offsite flows were routing through the property, and a portion of the site sat squarely in the floodplain. We prepared and processed both a Conditional Letter of Map Revision and a Letter of Map Revision to remove that designation.
With the floodplain cleared, the development could take shape. The project is now 50% built out, with two cross-dock facilities totaling nearly 1.5 million square feet of floor space constructed and the infrastructure in place to support the remaining buildout. What started as a water problem became an employment hub.
A Mile of Sewer, Three Roadways, Four Agencies
Onsite grading, drainage, water, and wastewater design were just the starting point. We designed offsite improvements to Perryville Road, McDowell Road, and 191st Avenue and installed a mile-long public sewer main extension to serve the development. Comprehensive surveying services including topographic surveys and final plat preparation kept the project moving through every phase.
The cities of Buckeye and Goodyear, Maricopa County Department of Transportation, and ADOT all had a seat at the table, and our team coordinated across every one of them. Nobody drives past a distribution center and thinks about the sewer main or the floodplain revision that made it possible. That’s the point. When the engineering works, it disappears.