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There seems to have been an explosion of construction activity on all fronts in the Pacific region. A diverse array of projects broke ground, including giant mixed-use projects like the $4 billion 210-acre Millenia community in Chula Vista, Calif., south of San Diego and the $2.3 billion Spring Street mixed-use development, in Bellevue, Wash., which the developer is promoting as "the largest high-density development attempted in decades," according to an article in the Bellevue Reporter.
There’s also billions of dollars in mass transit projects like the BART mass-transit extension in San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., and Honolulu’s 10-mile long mass-transit rail line; port expansion projects including the ongoing $1.2 billion Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project in Long Beach, Calif.; and retrofit of the Oakland docks; office projects like the Amazon towers going up in downtown Seattle and San Francisco’s 61-story, 1.35 million-sq-ft Transbay Tower; renewable energy projects including the giant $2.3 billion Antelope Valley Solar Power Plant; and airport construction at LAX and San Francisco International. More may be on the way – Many Alaskans want to build a multi-billion dollar terminal for liquid natural gas on the Kenai Peninsula and California’s mega mass transit project, the $69 billion high-speed line that would link Los Angeles to San Francisco by high-speed rail and would be what the San Jose Mercury called California's biggest-ever public works project, is chugging away through the approval process and toward its intended 2029 completion date.
ACQUISITION ACTIVITY IN THE PACIFIC REGION
Acquisition activity among electrical distributors in the Pacific region has been busy and full of big deals as some of the most prominent independents were added to national or multinational firms. Platt Electric’s acquisition by Rexel raised some eyebrows, but the biggest names went to Sonepar, which acquired Independent and OneSource in California, and CED, which added Davis and Walters. Other big captures included Crescent’s acquisition of Stoneway and Buckles-Smith’s acquisition of Plough. Perhaps the biggest deal of them all, from a national-impact perspective, was Kaman’s addition of automation giant Minarik. Here are the highlights from 2012-2013. Hit the "Details" link for the historical picture. Details
ELECTRICAL WHOLESALING TOP 200 DISTRIBUTORS
WITH THEIR HEADQUARTERS IN THIS REGION
Befitting a large, active region, the Pacific is home to a whole bunch of the industry's largest electrical distributors. Twenty in all. The largest on the 2013 Top 200 list that are based here following the move by giant Consolidated Electrical Distributors (CED) to Texas, include North Coast in the Seattle area, Walters in Signal Hill, Calif., (which has since been acquired by CED), Main Electric in Santa Ana, Calif., and Stoneway in Spokane, Wash., which was acquired by Crescent last year. The companies in the top 100 are below. Click here for the whole list.
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RECENT NEW BRANCH OPENINGS IN THE PACIFIC REGION
If your company has opened a new branch and would like it publicized in Electrical Wholesaling's print edition or on www.ewweb.com, please send the information (and a high-resolution photo if possible to Jim Lucy, EW's chief editor, at [email protected].PACIFIC REGION SALES DATA
EMPLOYMENT DATA FOR THE PACIFIC REGION
You can use the employment data below to calculate sales potential for key customer groups by region, state and Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) by using this data and Electrical Wholesaling's 2014 Sales Multipliers. To get these multipliers and to learn how to use them, click here to get to Electrical Wholesaling 2014 Market Planning Guide. Just scroll down and search for "multipliers."
