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YESCO to build new 102,000 square foot plant in Ninigret Park
By Barbara Rattle
The Enterprise
Young Electric Sign Co. plans to break ground late this fall for an approximately 103,000 square foot facility in Salt Lake City that will repalce its long-time location at 1148 S. 300 W., which it has sold to a Colorado developer planning a Target-anchored shopping center on the site.
YESCO vice president and division manager Jeff Young said the new facility will be constructed on just less than 10 acres on 1600 South, immediately west of Bangerter Highway, in the Ninigret Industrial Park. The new building should be ready for occupancy by early summer of next year. It will replace the firm's 70,000 square foot facility on 300 West, where 170 people are employed. YESCO has operated from that location since 1949.
"The [new] plant layout will offer us huge benefits in terms of efficiencies because we've been able to design it in a way where our work will flow much more evenly through," Yound said. "We'll have all the new technologies regarding air, electrical and lighting -- we're taking advantage of a lot more efficient systems that way."
Young said the Ninigret site was selected because of its visibility and accessibility.
"We are attracted to Ninigret by the visibility off of Bangerter. That's probably number one," he said. "The second most prominent issue there is accessibility to roads. You've got SR 201 to the south, I-80 to the north, Bangerter is right there with easy access to I-15. Our installation equipment has got to get to where they need to go. That was a key part of it, along with the proximity to where we are now relative to where our employees live."
Tom Stuart Construction will act as general contractor. AEURBIA is architect.
YESCO, founded in Ogden in 1920, is a privately owned manufacturer of electric and electronic signs. It operates in 13 western states plus Louisiana and Mississippi and employs approximately 1,650 people. The firm provides design, fabrication, installation and ongoing maintenance of electronic signs, many of them iconic.
In 1927, YESCO installed its first neon sign atop the then - First Security Bank headquarters in downtown Salt Lake City. In 1962, it fabricated and installed the giant rotating ice cream cone sign for Snelgrove Ice Cream Co. in Sugar House. More recently, the firm created Olympic rings spanning 600 feet of mountainside for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
YESCO is also responsible for some of the largest signage projects in Las Vegas, including the 1951 isntallation of "Vegas Vic," a 75-foot, 12,000 pound cowboy beckoning visitors to Sin City.
YESCO's departure from 300 West will help pave the way for Englewood, Colo.-based Miller Weingarten Realty LLC to develop an approximately 220,000 square foot retail center on the site. The project was announced last year, but anchor tenants were not confirmed at that time. While company representatives did not return phone calls last week, marketing materials on Miller Weingarten's Web site indicate the 18-acre center will be anchored by a 138,000 square foot Target store as well as a PetSmart Hotel.
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