06-03-2025
North Apple Valley Industrial Specific Plan area ready to expand with more warehouses
Hidden away from most residents is the North Apple Valley Industrial Specific Plan area where work is about to begin on a large warehouse distribution center.
ARCO Design/Build and Lecangs are constructing the 1.2-million-square-foot center at Dale Evans Parkway and Lafayette Street for Loctek Ergonomic Technology Corporation, a Lecangs company.
Loctek designs and manufactures branded ergonomic products for FlexiSpot, which has 12 warehouses worldwide with a total storage area of just over 3.7 million square feet, according to the company.
The Lecangs project sits adjacent to the vacant 1.35-million-square-foot Big Lots Distribution Center, which opened in 2020 and shuttered in 2024 due to bankruptcy.
Several people who drove past the Lecangs site told the Daily Press they thought the project was an ARCO gas station due to the word ARCO displayed on banners at the property.
'When you're zipping along and seeing a banner with the word 'ARCO,' you immediately think of AM/PM and ARCO gas,' said Regina Taylor of Apple Valley. 'I had no idea they were building a warehouse.'
Town officials shared that 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 26, is the official groundbreaking date for the Lecangs project.
The North Apple Valley Industrial Specific Plan area is located near Bell Mountain and Interstate 15.
The Town Council on Feb. 25, held a public hearing to discuss and eventually approve a tentative parcel map for the proposed Cordova Complex, an e-commerce distribution and warehouse center in the same industrial area.
The overall project includes the Cordova Complex and Quarry at Pawnee Warehouse, which would sit on the southwest quadrant of Cordova and Navajo roads, and the northwest quadrant of Flint and Cordova roads, according to the state of California.
The project includes the construction and operation of nearly 3 million square feet of industrial warehouse space on two sites, just north of the Walmart Distribution Center.
The Cordova Complex site on Cordova Road would include roughly 1.5 million square feet of industrial warehouse space on an approximately 87-acre site.
The Cordova site would include 10,000 square feet of office space, 266 roll-up truck loading dock doors, and 1,572 parking spaces.
The Quarry at Pawnee site would include approximately 1.4 million square feet of industrial/warehouse space on an approximately 76-acre site. The project would include associated improvements such as loading docks, truck and vehicle parking, and landscaped areas within both project sites.
The project also includes abutting right-of-way dedication and improvements and utility improvements.
Daily Press reporter Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at RDeLaCruz@ Follow him on X @DP_ReneDeLaCruz
This article originally appeared on Victorville Daily Press: North Apple Valley Industrial Specific Plan area ready to expand
