ENDRESS+HAUSER TO BUILD NEW FACILITY IN PEARLAND'S LOWER KIRBY DISTRICT

Endress+Hauser, a Swiss-based instrumentation and process automation company, recently announced Pearland as the site for its new Gulf Coast Regional Center.  PEDC began working with the company, who manufactures instrumentation and devices to provide solutions for more than 100,000 customers worldwide, earlier this year on the project. 

The 100,000 square-foot facility, located on a 17-acre site on the southeast corner of Beltway 8 and Kirby Drive, will include an area for calibration and repair and offer office and training space.  It will be home to approximately 110 employees when it opens.  Construction is expected to begin in early 2019.

REX SUPPLY FACILITY ON TRACK TO OPEN IN EARLY 2019

Construction is almost complete on Rex Supply's warehouse facility in the Lower Kirby District. The company is one of the top 100 suppliers of industrial tools in the United States and is owned by IMC Group, a Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway company.

The 46,000 square-foot facility is on a 15-acre site on the southeast corner of Kirby Drive and N. Spectrum Boulevard adjacent to Tool-Flo Manufacturing's new headquarters facility.  The facility will employ 43 and  will serve as a new headquarters location for Rex Supply and a new distribution center for Production Tool Supply Co., LLC.

STATE HIGHWAY 35 CORRIDOR ENHANCEMENTS UNDERWAY

Construction has officially begun on SH 35 Entryway and Corridor Enhancements project. This project, stemming from the State Highway 35 Redevelopment Strategy, includes new entryway monuments on the north side of Clear Creek near the city limits and various streetscaping improvements along the corridor from Beltway 8 to Broadway.

One of the main strategies outlined in the Pearland 20/20 Community Strategic Plan is to optimize the development potential of Pearland’s principal commercial corridors. The State Highway 35 Redevelopment Strategy was developed to build upon the Strategic Plan suggestions and provide the “big picture” strategic actions that are needed to encourage more investment in the corridor.

The project, which will be funded and maintained by PEDC, focuses on the entryway at Beltway 8, including two Pearland entryway monument signs near Clear Creek, planting the medians with canopy trees, enhancing pedestrian areas at major intersections, and framing the roadway with smaller street trees along the right-of-way. Additionally, the project will create a more desirable walking environment in the Old Town section by extending the sidewalk to the back of the right-of-way adding shrubbery as space in the road right-of-way allows.