Bakersfield, California (Kbak / KBFX) – The long -awaited project of Bakersfield Commons finally progresses with the construction of a new complex. But it is not the Center for Entertainment or Retail Sale that people were informed as long as the project was announced almost two decades ago, at least to date.
The first installation that should be built on the Coffee Frontage Road site, near Brimall and Coffee Roads, is an industrial complex that will be known as Bakersfield Commons Logistics Park.
The construction teams have already started to raise concrete walls from the 20 acres complex, which will be a class A commercial installation of 300,000 square feet. The BCLP has been underway since the end of 2024.
The developers said that the installation is to support “the continuous industrial and commercial growth of the region”. The developers did not say which companies would operate from warehouses; However, they gave an idea of who could cast their eyes on the complex.
“The interest we have generated came from retailers on the other side of the street,” said Wesley McDonald, director of the Commercial ASU. Nearby retailers are made up of brand names such as Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Ross, which are located at the Northwest Promenade on Rosedale Highway and Coffee Road. However, McDonald did not mention any specific enterprise.
THE Bakersfield Commons was presented for the first time almost 20 years ago and was presented as a major community for mixed use which would include a retail shopping center, a multiplex cinema, apartments and even a hospital. It was expected to be built in three phases, with the final phase set for completion in 2035.
We also expected that it was the site where the Minor League baseball team, The Bakersfield Blaze, was supposed to build a new cutting edge stadium. But after several delays, plans Finally failed Once funding has failed. The team finally left the city in 2016.
Years later, in 2021, after apparently no update on construction, Adventist health Announced a 50 acres medical complex This would be part of the municipalities. However, the plans have paused since the non -profit organization of health care Bought the old Bakersfield Heart hospitalAccording to a spokesperson for Advensit Health.
You will find below a declaration by Jason Wells, Adventist Health Central California Network President:
The central California network of Adventist Health now represents a unified and coordinated care network, serving with eight hospitals and more than 130 clinics in the counties of Kern, Tulare, Kings and Fresno. With the investment to save the Bakersfield Heart Hospital and transform this establishment into a specialized care campus, we continued the inheritance of advanced heart care and added orthopedic care with the addition of Ortho Scoi and surgeons in the spine. At the same time, this allowed us to suspend the chronology on the new hospital campus on the old world oil site off Coffee Road. We continue to invest in the county of Kern and have recently won a ten -year lease of several floors of the large seven -story office complex next to the centenary corridor on California avenue. We continue to experience a strong growth in hires to help support the significant need for our care in the community.
As for the Bakersfield Commons Logistics Park, “this stage marks real and visible progress towards the completion of this new important industrial resource,” said McDonald. “The objective, at the moment, is on the logistics park and success there. I think it will trigger other events that could occur.”
The logistics complex, which is a joint venture between the owner of Bakersfield Commons Coffee-Brimhall and Rexco and World Oil, should be completed by the fall of 2025.