Phoenix Business Journal
Summary
RAY SCHEY (PBJ): What projects do you have in predevelopment currently?
KYLE JARDINE (WEXFORD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY): We’re working on 800 PBC and 843 PBC, two new laboratory towers like 850 PBC and directly adjacent to it.
SCHEY: What do you see as the benefit of district energy for private landowners?
JARDINE: For us, reliability and resiliency are critical, especially when you’re doing experiments and research. A looped district system offers redundancy beyond what a single-building system can provide. That’s vital when downtime isn’t an option.
The sustainability benefits are also important to us and to our partners. Managing energy at a district scale brings efficiency gains and reduces the need to maintain many smaller, individual units.
SCHEY: Jacob, can you give a brief overview of Cordia’s downtown Phoenix system? Its history and progression?
JACOB GRAFF (CORDIA): The system started in 2003 as a partnership between the Diamondbacks/Chase Field and Maricopa County. There’s a plant inside Chase Field and another next to it with ice storage. We initially served customers in the Stadium District (owned by the county), which planted the seeds of a district energy system.
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