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IAC Commerce Center In Valencia To Bring 2,600 New Jobs

International Airport Centers, Sheridan Ebbert Real Estate Development and Santa Clarita Valley officials attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the new IAC Commerce Center in Valencia Thursday.


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“The importance of this project is to provide future job growth in the Santa Clarita Valley, benefiting the county and state. You have a number of nine buildings going into this industrial IAC Commerce Center In Valencia To Bring 2,600 New Jobspark. That means when we go abroad and tell people to come, invest here and create jobs — we now have a place to do that,” said Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. “You don’t have the business tax and a lot of regulations that are anti-jobs in the Santa Clarita Valley. You have regulations that encourage development and job creation.“

The IAC Commerce Center will be located on about 116 acres of land near Highway 126 and Commerce Drive at the end of Witherspoon Parkway, said Hunt Williams, partner in Sterling Gateway, who previously owned the land. There will be about 1.3 million square-feet of office space.

“Instead of choosing Los Angeles city that has all of the regulations and taxes, you come to Santa Clarita and have a welcome wagon for them,” Antonovich said. “As a result, you will see these buildings filled with entrepreneurs and businesses when they are completed as we’re seeing with the other industrial park here.”

Sterling Gateway officials owned the property for years. Founded by Theodore Kessler Sterling, who discovered oil in the 1950’s in IAC Commerce Center In Valencia To Bring 2,600 New Jobs-1Castaic, Sterling Gateway officials have been working with developing the property and hope to build 230 homes, a park and a shopping center on the remaining 200 acres that the business still owns, said Williams, grandson of Sterling.

“The groundbreaking for the IAC Commerce Center is very important for us in the city of Santa Clarita because it’s in the Santa Clarita Valley,” said Councilmember TimBen Boydston. “Whenever you create space thats industrial space, manufacturing space or commercial space, that generates jobs and that’s the most important thing. We have a huge demand in Santa Clarita Valley for more industrial space, light industrial space and business park space.”

The IAC Commerce Center would potentially create 2,600 permanent jobs, Antonovich said.

The homes would be built near the center for the employees to live in, Williams said.

“It’s been a very long time coming but it’s going to be a great project. It’ll create a lot of jobs and bring a lot of jobs to the area which, I think, is also IAC Commerce Center In Valencia To Bring 2,600 New Jobs-2going to create a demand for housing,” Williams said. “Which is great. It’s a great economic project and I’m just really happy that finally we’re breaking ground and can see the direct impact that it’s going to make.”

 

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Jessica is an award-winning journalist, photographer, videographer and artist. She has worked with news organizations including NBC Los Angeles, KHTS AM 1220, and the Pierce College Roundup News. She is studying to receive a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism with an emphasis on Photojournalism and a minor in Communications at California State University, Northridge. She has studied and worked in many fields including filmmaking, journalism, studio photography, and some graphic design. She began her journalism journey at the Arroyo Seco Conquestador News Network and the Saugus High School News Network.