Plans for an Industrial Triangle in Maricopa are starting to see progress.  

Phoenix offices for Lincoln, Neb.-based engineering firm Olsson proposes constructing the Maricopa Business Park near the southeast corner of Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway and White-and-Parker Road, according to public records obtained by InMaricopa. 

This is the first word of development inside the triangle since the city moved ahead with two land sales totaling $29 million last year.

Olsson said in a recent project narrative it intended to construct 9 million square feet of rail-accessible industrial buildings and another half-million square feet of non-rail-accessible industrial space.

The Maricopa Business Park proposal would transform the former agricultural land into “a leading industrial and logistics hub,” the developer said.

The new paperwork did not name which companies would operate on the site. In previous InMaricopa coverage, Hollywood, Calif.-based Redevco Solutions said it eyed bringing a mixed-waste processing facility, a plastics renewal company and a composites material company.

Foreign and domestic products would move through the site via rail lines for storage, assembly and manufacturing before hitting the U.S. market, according to the narrative.  

A preliminary site plan shows dozens of buildings to be constructed across the uniquely shaped 680-acre site, with rail lines winding through it.

Construction will not begin soon. City employees and the Maricopa Planning and Zoning Commission must review additional documents yet to be submitted before the proposal goes before the Maricopa City Council for approval.  

However, Chief Economic Development Officer Christian Price has said the industrial park could see its first tenants next year. 

“They’re ready to go right now, which means they want to be up and running in the next two years,” he said during a meeting last summer.