YS Industries has filed plans to build six warehouse buildings on a Visalia Industrial park site that includes a dairy to be relocated. Google Earth image

Los Angeles-based YS Industries has proposed building six new warehouse buildings at the flaming-hot Visalia Industrial Park.

In a site-plan review filing with the city this week, the development company said the buildings at the southwest corner of Riggin Avenue and Shirk Street would add up to more than 1.5 million square feet. Tenants for the buildings have not been identified.

The company recently purchased the site, which is about 78 acres. Nearly half of the property is a dairy to be be relocated — the last farm property south of Riggin Avenue next to the city’s booming industrial area.

Two of the structures will be 297,160 square feet, another two 188,020 square feet with the remaining two coming in at 331,840 and 250,880 square feet. This would be the third project for the company in Visalia.

Spokesman for YS Industries Freddie Molina says he hopes to be under construction in January on about half the acreage — the east side of the property, since the dairy to the west will remain for another year. The property needs to be annexed into the city.

Molina says another 356,000 square-foot, tilt-up building nearby on Clancy Street is nearing completion and should be ready for occupancy in December of this year. He expects to have a tenant in place by then, suggesting demand is still good despite economic jitters across the country.

“We are looking at three proposals to lease the building,” he said.

Two twin buildings on Riggin Avenue are already filled.

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