WCC Properties of San Diego has 64 acres up for grabs in thecommerce center at the junction of Giss Road and Interstate 8. Inaddition to the hotel developer, there is a retail developer fromTucson sizing up land for a project too, Christopher Ackel, seniorassociate for CB Richard Ellis in Phoenix, tells GlobeSt.com.

Rio Vista Commerce Center is situated in a city once consideredthe half-way stopping point between Phoenix and San Diego. But,Ackel says some developers are starting to see a different side ofYuma--one with an active tourism industry, active agricultural baseand home to the 86,000-acre Yuma Proving Grounds, which has2,400 acres leasedto General Motors Corp. for a hot weather testingtrack.

Next month, Rio Vista Commerce Center's first build-to-suitopens--a 29,000-sf call center for Allstate Corp., headquartered inNorthbrook, IL. Ackel says Allstate liked the area because of theaccessibility to a bilingual labor force. Yuma is less than eightmiles from the Mexico border.