Hollister
– A five-building office development planned this summer in the
Hollister Business Park on San Felipe Road will provide new space
for small businesses and could attract some out-of-town
employers.
Hollister – A five-building office development planned this summer in the Hollister Business Park on San Felipe Road will provide new space for small businesses and could attract some out-of-town employers.
The Carlisle Business Park will consist of three two-story buildings and two single-story buildings on 1.7 acres of land within the Hollister Business Park. The buildings will be marketed to small businesses and professionals, said Teresa Carlisle, who is developing the properties with her husband, Gary.
Carlisle said she was hoping to create options for small businesses in Hollister.
“I know when I was looking two years ago, I couldn’t find anything that was really suited for our business – with only two or three offices. I couldn’t find anything small enough,” she said.
Although they have not yet begun seeking out potential lessees, Carlisle said she and her husband are optimistic that the space will attract clients, either from within Hollister or from other cities. She said she plans to market the buildings to small business clientele such as doctors, attorneys and insurance agencies.
“I’m hoping to find a niche in the marketplace where I can have smaller office buildings and a nice environment, and a smaller business can have the opportunity to rent space. That’s the whole idea,” Carlisle said.
The central building, which the Carlisles will use as office space to manage their four McDonald’s restaurant franchises, will be two stories and 4,046 square feet, while the other two-story buildings will both be 5,056 square feet each. The two one-story buildings will each contain 2,400 square feet of space.
The development’s architect, Christina Perez, said the buildings were designed to satisfy both clients with a small office-space needs and businesses needing larger space.
“Each building is designed with enough flexibility that if a tenant came wanting the whole building, they could do that, or only a quarter (of the building), they could do that,” Perez said.
The two larger buildings could serve between one and four businesses, and the two smaller ones could serve either one or two.
Because of Hollister’s sewer hookup moratorium, the buildings will have temporary holding tanks installed to handle wastewater. The tanks will be used until the buildings can be connected to the sewer system after the moratorium is lifted.
The state-mandated moratorium, in effect since 2002, is expected to end when the city completes expansion of its wastewater treatment plant in late 2008.
Plans for the Carlisle Business Park were approved last month by the Hollister Planning Commission.
City planning manager Mary Paxton said the planning commission was looking forward to seeing infill in the existing business parks in Hollister.
“The city is glad to see some commercial and industrial development,” Paxton said.
The 114-acre Hollister Business Park still contains about 14 acres of undeveloped land. The Carlisle Business Park will be a fairly small development within the Hollister Business Park, but it will be the first designated office center.
Construction will begin once plans get approval from the city Building Commission. Don Marcus, the general contractor for the project, said he expects an early summer startup for the project, and for it to be completed by the end of the year.
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