335,066 SF | Light Industrial Three Building Complex  | Mesa, Arizona

Advanced Industrial Center, located at 7250 S Sossaman Road in Mesa, Arizona, has proudly received the 2024 RED Award from AZRE magazine, distinguishing it as the Industrial Project of the Year (250,000 SF-490,000 SF). This accolade highlights the exceptional partnership between Cawley Architects and Via West, culminating in the creation of the Advanced Industrial Center.

This award-winning project encompasses three light industrial shell buildings across 20.7 acres. Building 1 is 80,639 SF; Building 2 is 122,690 SF; and Building 3 is 131,737 SF. Designed to accommodate light industrial, distribution, and warehouse purposes, each building shares a common private yard with truck wells and grade-level access.

Uniquely, this development is integrated into the Pecos Road Employment Opportunity Zone (PREOZ), reflecting a commitment to community enhancement and economic growth. It is also located in the Mesa Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ).

Architecturally, the project aims to make a statement with its tilt building design and strategic placement of canopies and accents. Entry points for each building are thoughtfully oriented, enhancing accessibility and visual appeal. Parking, refuse enclosures, and fire truck maneuvering areas are meticulously planned to optimize functionality and aesthetics. The project features state-of-the-art concrete tilt, single-level buildings, private yards, and modern amenities.

Guided by Alex Boles, Senior Vice President of ViaWest, David W. Fulk—President and Principal Architect at Cawley Architects—integrates aesthetics and practicality into groundbreaking tilt building designs. Their thoughtful approach enhances accessibility, functionality, and visual appeal, ensuring that each project embodies both vision and purpose.

Owner: ViaWest Group

75,550 SF | Light Industrial Spec, Industrial  | Peoria, Arizona

Colosseum 3 and AGL Properties, spearheaded by entrepreneur Jason Beck of TYR Tactical, represent a pinnacle of local accomplishment. TYR Tactical’s nearby two-building headquarters, with the recent addition of Colosseum 3, symbolizes innovation and growth.

The new Colosseum 3 project is a speculative business incubator project. The concept is to provide lease space for business startups. The innovators can be from any entrepreneurial arena, from medical device manufacturers to technology ventures and lab spaces.

The building is a 75,550 SF two-story industrial warehouse building located on the northwest corner of Olive Avenue and N 91st Avenue in Peoria, Arizona. The property is on a 4.55-acre site and features a securely fenced yard, oversized grade-level doors, and a clear 24’ height at the frontage of the east-facing building.

The project provides a maximum of 4 suites for future leasing options. The suite sizes range from 17,740 SF and 20,056 SF to the entire 75,550 SF. All suites are mezzanine-ready at the front and have access to a truck well and grade-level roll-up door to the rear.

To accommodate the narrow site, the truck wells are oriented at a 60-degree angle, allowing trucks to back in without being perpendicular to the building. Additional roll-up doors are available on either side of the truck well for drive-in at-grade access via 16×16 doors, which are larger than typical for most of our industrial developments.

The west-facing truck wells are concealed by architectural screen walls, which enhance the building’s aesthetic along Loop 101 and the off-ramp. Additionally, the spandrel panels above the screens serve as locations for signage.

The building also features a consistent architectural vocabulary with the previous two nearby TYR Tactical buildings. This building stands out and features contemporary metal panel entrances and steel arcade-like canopies. The design intends to convey identity to the TYR Tactical company and make the project stand out from its non-campus neighbors.

The initial site plan comprised two distinct sites and buildings. The Colosseum 3 project’s inaugural development has commenced on the site, while the remaining portion is slated for future development phases. The coordination of these phases, on-site circulation, project entrances, and truck maneuvering underwent multiple iterations to adhere to the site’s constraints.

Owner: AGL Properties
Contractor: Derek Builders

303,419 SF | Manufacturing Facility, Industrial, Office, Interiors  | El Mirage, Arizona

Avanti Windows & Doors is an award-winning corporate headquarters designed for a prominent manufacturer in the Valley. This project was honored with the Office Project of the Year award at the 2024 RED Awards, presented by AZ Big Media.

Avanti Windows & Doors is a top vinyl window and door systems manufacturer and installer in the Southwest. Founded in 2014, this local company is known for its innovation in window installation through AIM – The Avanti Install Method. Their commitment revolves around the pillars of Product, Process, and People, earning them the 2018 Dealer of the Year Award from Window & Door Magazine for Excellence in Installation.

The facility represents an exciting new chapter for the company. This 303,419 SF building is the company’s headquarters, manufacturing facility, and field installation operations center. The 32- acre site is designed to accommodate a single-story, 24’ clear building, parking for 610 spaces for manufacturing in several shifts, truck maneuvering, and over 3.5 acres of surface retention. The building includes 33,000 SF of office and administration spaces, 166,000 SF of manufacturing space, and 104,000 SF of distribution and storage space. There is also enough site area for an additional 200,000 SF building in the future.

Internally, the project features new and innovative spaces that foster collaboration and enhance staff morale with a renewed esprit de corps. These spaces include human resources, customer service, strategic planning hubs, and a cafeteria with amenities that open onto a generous training room on one side and an exterior covered patio on the other. Ultimately, the facility is designed to support an output of 5,000 windows and doors daily in several shifts.

In alignment with its community-centric vision, Avanti selected a location to minimize commute times for valley-wide employees and offer significant career development opportunities for their manufacturing, installation, and support teams. Beyond job numbers, the facility serves as a flagship model for industry workforce development, contributing to national housing demand efforts. Avanti’s expansion demonstrates its commitment to both employee growth and community support.

Owner: Avanti Windows and Doors
Contractor: Layton Construction

48,522SF | Four 12,100 SF Light Industrial Buildings  | Queen Creek, Arizona

Power Marketplace is speculative light industrial development featuring four buildings paired into two duplexes. Developed by Newport Development of Queen Creek and located in the Power Market Business Park, the project is designed to provide freestanding identities to companies needing to be close to the Williams-Gateway Airport regional submarket.

The larger Business Park has a design guideline emphasizing a “Western Territorial” architectural vocabulary. Like all projects in the park, this project addresses this requirement with design elements that refer to Queen Creek’s rural western heritage. For example, each duplex has a standing seam-sloped roof, and all buildings have sloped metal canopies over the vision windows and entrance glazing.

Another advantage of this development is the large secured private rear yards associated with each building. The project targeted a “sweet spot” of smaller  12,000 to 15,000 SF freestanding buildings: in the submarket, and these four sold upon completion.

Owner: Newport Development
Contractor: Nordic Builders

62,951SF | Fabrication Facility  | Gila River Indian Community

The new AF Steel fabrication facility is Cawley’s second production facility for this family-owned steel fabrication business. Built on 7 acres in a specialty development zone within the Gila River Indian Community, this facility provides more than 52,000 SF of fabrication space and approximately 10,000 SF of administrative and break space. The building design focuses on this company’s strengths: large structural steel framing. The fabrication space has been treated as an open-air environment with various shading and cooling strategies. These also allow the structural frame of the building to be expressed throughout. For building cladding, a desire to reflect again this company’s core business pointed the Cawley team towards a series of metal panel cladding solutions. Great care was taken to provide a simple, cost-effective, and functional building that catches drivers’ eye up and down the I -10 corridor south of Chandler, AZ.

Owner: Arizona Fireplaces
Interior Design: Cawley Design Studio
Contractor: Willmeng Construction

44,639 SF | Manufacturing Facility  | Peoria, Arizona

TYR manufactures tactical body and vehicle armor for law enforcement, military, and private contractors. This building is Phase II of a four Phase development. The adjacent building on site is the Phase I facility with 75,000 SF of warehouse and distribution space. This project consists of a 34,498 SF manufacturing space for armoring production. Two highly specialized presses were imported from France, weighing 7,700 tons each and capable of producing 22,000 psi of pressure. The remainder of the building is for research and development.

The building design reflects the Phase I facility and shares a common driveway and vehicle parking. The building is constructed of concrete tilt wall panels with accents of exposed steel girders, ribbed steel panel screen walls, and prefinished metal panels at the main entrance.

Owner: TYR Tactical
Interior Design: Cawley Design Studio
Contractor: Ganem Construction

12,275 SF | Light Industrial Office Warehouse | Gilbert, Arizona

Hawkins Design Group is a professional electrical engineering firm that also specializes in photovoltaic (PV) solar energy systems. The $3 million, 12,275 SF building incorporates the company’s office operations (6,000 SF) along with a large warehouse area (6,275 SF).

The main interior focus of the project is the large open office area, where project managers work in a collaborative environment highlighted by outstanding light fixtures. The office area is supported by an impressive conference room and a flexible break room area that opens onto the patio. Unique contemporary lighting schemes are featured in each private office to illustrate the variety of possible fixtures and effects that a customer may choose to showcase in their business. Additionally, the lobby, conference room, open office area, and break room floors have been painted a stunning deep blue color reflecting Hawkins’ love of the ocean and its bounty. Subtle blue and white accent lighting can be observed throughout the interior as well.

Developer: Hawkins Design Group

Contractor: Kennedy Design Build
Interiors: Cawley Design Studio

31,800 SF | Three Building Industrial Headquarters | Phoenix, Arizona

The Felix Construction project is a best-in-class example of a client that understood its competitive challenges and commissioned a project to attract new staff and maintain employee retention. They envisioned a campus that would become the centerpiece of workplace satisfaction for the next twenty-five years, and Cawley Design Studio delivered with unqualified success.

Felix Construction is a three-building light industrial campus in South Phoenix designed for one of the Southwest’s largest water and wastewater contractors.  The centerpiece of the project is their 12,700 SF single-story Administrative Services Building, featured here.

The Administration Building was specifically designed to attract new and young talent into their organization. The Cawley Design Studio included many offices for private workspaces as an incentive for staff. It also featured a calming open office environment with many amenities and workflow enhancements; The unique interior design emphasizes bright colors, dramatic signage, visuals, and touchdown spaces, and a contemporary approach to collaboration.

To date, their 120+ person staff has relocated successfully and enthusiastically adopted the new campus environment.

Owner: Felix Construction
Contractor: Haydon Building Corp
Interiors: Cawley Design Studio

62,500 SF | Industrial Multi Tenant | Surprise, Arizona

Skyway Commons Building Phase One complements a long history of design and construction by LGE Design Build and Cawley Architects for Silagi Development in Skyway Business Park in Surprise. Designed as a smaller multitenant companion to the larger Skyway Commons Phase Two buildings next door, the project features masonry facades and building colors that emphasize individuality for each of the tenant suites. Already popular with brokers and tenants, Skyway Commons is a seamless complement to the prior five buildings, and 700,000 SF LGE has completed to date in the Skyway Business Park.

Developer: Silagi Development
Contractor: LGE Design Build

26,100 SF | Multi-Tenant Industrial | Gilbert, Arizona

VJ Baseline s a new multi-tenant light industrial building for lease in Gilbert, Arizona. The project features five suites for lease and is designed with ample parking and rear yard maneuvering for light assembly and industrial uses. Additionally, because the building also presents a prominent frontage on Baseline Road, it is ideal for showroom, retail, and office uses. The highlighted vertical piers and accent features on the facade and sign band also bring attention to the building.

Interestingly, the project overcame several municipal and planning challenges. While the property is inside the Gilbert city limits, Baseline Road is maintained and managed by Mesa. The project’s site and utility improvements needed approvals from both cities’ traffic engineering and utility departments. And the project’s site was “carved” out of a much larger parcel with existing site circulation and driveways that also needed to be accommodated.

Developer: VJ Properties
Contractor: Ganem Construction