The Port of Chehalis is working on a build to suit facility for Wilcox & Flegel Oil Company. The 82,000 square foot building would be located along Maurin Road in Chehalis.
The Port of Chehalis has been in discussions with Wilson Oil for a build-to-suit facility located along Maurin Road. In order to determine how much the new building would be leased to the company, also known as Wilcox and Flegel Oil Co., the port has put together a preliminary design for the structure.
“The real key is we are talking about building a facility to lease to these folks, and we want to know how much to lease it for so I need to know how much it costs (to build),” Mueller said.
The port retained consulting firm Mackenzie to do the preliminary site design and cost estimates.
The building and infrastructure is estimated to cost $10 million, although recent numbers have put the price tag closer to $14 million. Given the cost discrepancies, Mackenzie will work with a contractor that specializes in the type of building they are seeking to determine what the cost will be.
Mueller said the cost estimate should be finalized sometime in January, but said he feels comfortable the project will be closer to the $10 million range. That would include all aspects of the project, including the building, and the rail spur.
Since Wilson Oil would need to be served by rail, the port plans to place the building near a rail line that serves Cresline-Northwest, which is located on an adjacent lot, so a parallel rail spur can connect to the existing line.
Scott Moore, an architect and project manager with Mackenzie, said the company has developed site plans, utility configurations, grading work and some of the specifics related to the building.
Located on the southeast corner of Maurin Road Industrial Site 2, the 82,000-square-foot building would take up a corner of the property that is divided by a Bonneville Power Administration easement in the center due to power lines.
On either side are two developable pieces of land.
The building fits tight to the corner so the company would have the ability to add bays or to accommodate future growth, Moore said.
The office space in the building would be central to the plan, while the remainder of the building would serve as shipping and receiving components for the building.
There would be two points of access to the site. The preliminary design lays out the geotechnical work to be done, as well as the utility plan which includes water and sewer connections, and preliminary landscape designs.
The agreement currently being discussed with Wilson Oil is for a long-term lease for around 25 years. The building is designed to accommodate the company, but Moore said it is also standard in the realm of industrial distribution centers so a number of different businesses could occupy the building.
“If something happens, we don’t want to be in the position that the port has a white elephant no one else can use,” Mueller said. “This thought was carried all they way through the design.”
Since it would be a petroleum-based building, there will be containment measures built into the outside tank farm housing the barrels that will be about 15 feet in diameter and 30 feet tall. The building would also have a fire pump room for its sprinkler line that would release a higher volume of water than a more traditional system, Moore said.
The current layout of the building also provides fire personnel easy access, if ever needed.
The plan includes a large water quality pond to the north of the development for stormwater that will be gathered on site, treated and then discharged underneath a rail spur that discharges into the drainage way north of the property.
Mueller said the pond may be relocated underneath the BPA power lines if a regional stormwater pond is created.
