The way Ken Templeton figures
things, the $6 million or so he's putting
into landscaping, signage and infrastructure
at Mountain View Corporate Center
is part of his marketing campaign.
The office park which is beginning to
take shape along the west side of U.S.
395 just south of Del Monte Lane,
Templeton said last week, marks the first
time a northern Nevada office park has
been created as a fully designed community.
That means everything from architecture
to signage and landscaping at buildings
in the 30-acre project will be coordinated.
"When they see it, they're going to
love it," Templeton said about the clients
he's seeking to buy or lease space in the
project.
But until they see it, the president of
Las Vegas-based Templeton
Development Corp. acknowledged, it's a
tough sale.
"You put it up and take your chances,"
he said of the work that's ongoing this
winter. By next winter, the project's landscaping,
fountains and signage will be in
place.
Not much later, the first building in
Mountain View Corporate Center will
open with Sun West Bank as a key tenant
occupying 7,700 square feet of the
60,000-square-foot building.
A second major tenant in the building
will be Mountain View Executive Suites,
which will provide professional services
and meeting rooms to occupants of about
9,900 square feet.
Grubb & Ellis Nevada Commercial
Group, which is handling the leasing of
the Mountain View Corporate Center,
itself plans to close escrow in January on
a one-acre piece of the center. The real
estate company will build a 12,000-
square-foot office building.
Next door to Grubb & Ellis, Pinecrest
Construction Co. expects to close escrow
next month on a one-acre parcel for
another 12,000-square-foot building.
The next big building in the project
will be under way next spring when a
franchisee for SpringHill Suites by
Marriott closes escrow on a 2.5-acre parcel,
said John Pinjuv of Grubb & Ellis.
The hotel is scheduled for completion
in spring 2004. Pinjuv said the hotel will
target women business travelers and families
traveling on leisure two of the
fastest growing segments of the travel
market.
Interest in leasing and sales at the
project, Pinjuv said, has increased dramatically
since early November. He said
construction of the first building in the
project helped convince the market that
Mountain View Corporate Center is for
real at about the same time that businesses
began regaining the confidence they
lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
Templeton, who also is chairman of
the board of Sun West Bank, said construction
companies which are customers
of the bank got first crack at the
Mountain View work.
Contractors on the building include:
Atlas Contractors, grading and paving;
Martin Iron Works, structural steel;
Electro-Tech, electrical; G&G Nursery
& Landscape, landscape; Tedesco
Construction, concrete; RDA Inc., drywall
and paint; Capital Glass, glass; J&J
Mechanical, plumbing; Mount Rose
Heating & Air Conditioning, heating,
ventilation and conditioning; Alpine
Roofing, roofing.
