Pecos Advanced Manufacturing Zone / EO Floating Zone

The City of Mesa has created an Employment Opportunity (EO) Floating Zone that reduces entitlement risk and greatly expedites the development process. The Floating Zone follows the General Industrial (GI) zoning guidelines, while restricting some land uses. When landowners opt in, they are only required to submit the proper paperwork for administrative approval. No public hearings or further City Council action is required. Projects that might have taken up to six months to go through the entitlement process, can get approval as fast as a few weeks.

The Pecos Advanced Manufacturing Zone sits within one of Mesa’s Opportunity Zones. Opportunity Zones are part of a federal program designed to spur investment by providing tax benefits to investors who hold their investment between five to ten years. Most of the Mesa Gateway Area sits within an Opportunity Zone.

One of the most competitive in the nation, the Mesa FTZ can reduce or defer tariffs and duties, and can reduce property taxes by as much as 73% in perpetuity for qualified users.

Multiple fiber providers are available in the Zone, such as Zayo, Lumen, and Cox, which provide dark and lit fiber services, extensive interconnectivity, and redundancy for high-tech industry needs. Furthermore, the City-owned E-Streets Conduit Loop, stretching 36 miles through East Mesa and the Pecos Advanced Manufacturing Zone, provides an underground network of twelve 2-inch fiber conduits which can be leased by fiber providers and private industry, allowing for accelerated fiber expansion and increased network operational control.

Southwest Gas provides competitively-priced natural gas service to the area.

The City of Mesa maintains a substantial water and wastewater infrastructure network in PAMZ, and is continuing to expand to accommodate for future industry growth. Recently, the City invested over $150 million to construct the Signal Butte Water Treatment Plant, which has added an additional 24 million gallons per day (MGD) of pumping capacity. In addition, a $200 million expansion of the existing Greenfield Water Reclamation Plant will also enhance wastewater capacity in the area by 14 MGD, bringing the total plant capacity to 30 MGD.

Easy freeway on/off ramp access to Loop 202 and Interstate 10 links the area to markets across the nation. PAMZ is within a one-day drive time of the Southern California market making Mesa an excellent alternative to the higher operating costs of California. Furthermore, the future extension of Arizona State Route 24 to the east will provide enhanced connectivity and growth opportunities for the region.

Click here to download a map detailing the driving distance to key western markets.

PAMZ is adjacent to Mesa Gateway Airport, which provides commercial service to more than 45 destinations throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as cargo services. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, which provides commercial and cargo service nationally and internationally, is only 30 minutes away.

Click here to download a map detailing the flight distance to key western markets.

The Phoenix-Mesa metro area consistently ranks among the safest places in the U.S. for high-tech companies to do business because of its low risk of natural disasters, such as hurricanes, flooding, catastrophic hail, tornado super-outbreaks, and earthquakes.

• Arizona State University (ASU) Polytechnic – PAMZ is in close proximity to ASU’s Polytechnic campus with more than 6,700 students enrolled in science, engineering, management, technology, and education programs.
• Chandler Gilbert Community College (CGCC) – Also located within a few minutes of PAMZ is Chandler Gilbert Community College’s Williams Campus with more than 2,000 students in nursing, aviation, and applied technology programs.
• East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT) – Considered a model for high-quality career and technical education, EVIT provides more than 40 advanced career training programs to more than 5,000 high school students and adults in the East Valley, with financial aid available to those who qualify.

• Bridgestone Americas – R&D facility conducting research and developing manufacturing processes to produce rubber from the Guayule plant
• CMC Steel – Micro steel mill producing rebar from recycled steel
• CRM Rubber – Producer and supplier of crumb rubber to the asphalt industry. Largest crumb rubber producer in the western U.S.
• FUJIFILM – Manufacturer of chemicals for the semiconductor industry
• Nippon Sanso Matheson – Producer and supplier of industrial gasses used in manufacturing industries such as steel, fabrication, medical, water treatment, semiconductors, chemicals and food freezing
• Metso – Provider of industrial equipment repair and field services for the mining, aggregates, and process industries
• Mitsubishi Gas Chemical – Manufacturer of chemicals for the semiconductor industry
• ZF Lifetec – Manufacturer of airbag components