Year: 2017
Location: Buckeye, Arizona
Client: Undisclosed
Type: Light Industrial
Size: +/-15,116 SF Flex Light Industrial
Status: Leasing Document for project marketing – Unbuilt
Role: James Easton, AIA, NCARB, Project Architect – Conceptual Design and Development
Firm: Butler Design Group, Architect of Record

Verrado Flex – Light Industrial

Verrado Flex is a small-bay light industrial building designed for McDowell Road and Lancaster Road in Buckeye, Arizona. The approximately 15,100-square-foot building is organized as five independently leasable suites, creating a flexible commercial format capable of accommodating a range of office, showroom, service, fabrication, storage, and light-industrial tenants.

The plan is intentionally straightforward. Each suite combines a public storefront entrance with direct service access at the opposite side of the building, allowing customer-facing and operational functions to coexist within a relatively small footprint. Individual bays range from approximately 2,700 to 3,300 square feet and can be combined or adapted as tenant requirements change.

The architecture gives a simple flex-industrial shell a more deliberate commercial presence. Storefront glazing, steel canopies, defined signage panels, masonry surfaces, landscaping, and variations in the façade establish individual tenant identity while maintaining a coherent building across the full 224-foot elevation.

The repetitive bay structure is also fundamental to the economics of the project. Regular demising walls, straightforward structural spans, independent service access, and clearly defined tenant fronts allow the building to be constructed efficiently and leased incrementally without requiring every tenant to have the same use or build-out.

The lease exhibit was developed to communicate both the architectural character of the building and the flexibility of the underlying plan. For speculative light-industrial development, that clarity is important: the building must work as architecture, but it must also be understandable to brokers, prospective tenants, contractors, and investors before the individual spaces are occupied.

Verrado Flex reflects a practical approach to small-scale industrial development—using a disciplined building module to create adaptable, leasable space while giving a straightforward commercial structure enough identity to contribute positively to its surrounding development.

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