Did you hear the one about the project doing an expansion\u00a0 before it\u2019s even completed?<\/p>\n
That, in a nutshell, is the story of ASM at the Scottsdale Development Review Board Dec. 11 meeting.<\/p>\n
According to the Dutch-based tech giant\u2019s 2024 application, \u201cASM (Advanced Semiconductor Materials) submitted a pre-application to the city of Scottsdale in support of ASM\u2019s proposal to develop the ASM America Scottsdale, which is a planned as an office and fabrication facility located on approximately 23 acres south of the State Route Loop 101 and east of Scottsdale Road.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicknamed \u201cDevelopment Row,\u201d this area is bookended by the under-construction Optima McDowell Mountain Village luxury apartments (rooftop pool, anyone?) and planned Axon apartments-hotel-office development.<\/p>\n
In between are the ASM project and a Banner \u201cHealthcare Plus\u201d office, both of which began construction earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Banner also plans a hospital next to the medical office, but that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n
Back to ASM, a news release last year crowed, \u201cASM, a semiconductor supplier with local customers like Intel and TSMC, is investing $300 million in its new Scottsdale facility and plans to add 500 new high-paying jobs as part of the expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n
With 800 employees already at its current Phoenix headquarters, the additional staff would bump ASM\u2019s Scottsdale payroll to 1,300.<\/p>\n
ASM\u2019s new North American headquarters will cover 250,000 square feet \u2013 double the size of its Phoenix facility. ASM has research and development centers in Arizona, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Japan, South Korea and Italy and manufacturing sites in Singapore, South Korea, Italy and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
In the fall of 2024, Scottsdale City Council unanimously approved $7 million in water and sewer line reimbursements to a trio of developers: ASM, healthcare giant Banner Health and \u201cretail development specialist\u201d De Rito.<\/p>\n
Also last fall, Council unanimously approved a separate development agreement with ASM.<\/p>\n
The ASM development deal calls for the city to reimburse the tech company for up to $6.3 million \u201cfor a portion of public infrastructure costs.\u201d<\/p>\n
A major part of the development agreement covered water.<\/p>\n
In early 2024, former city Water Executive Brian Biesemeyer expressed concerns over the Dutch company\u2019s plans to recycle 80% of its wastewater. In an internal email, Biesemeyer warned it was crucial for ASM to understand \u201cthey cannot dump to our sewer if their recycle plant is down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Near the beginning of 2024, Paul Crothers, ASM\u2019s vice president of operations, projected the company\u2019s North Scottsdale water use: Just under 90,000 gallons per day during Phase 1 of development, shooting up to about 234,000 gallons per day in Phase 2.<\/p>\n
That would mean from 30 to 80 million gallons per year.<\/p>\n
In the development agreement, ASM agreed to provide 600 acre-feet of water \u2013 nearly 200 million gallons \u2013 to Scottsdale over 20 years.<\/p>\n
When it first unveiled its plan, ASM said it would \u201cmove its headquarters to Scottsdale in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
Plan change approved<\/strong><\/p>\n According to last year\u2019s submission to the Scottsdale Planning Department, \u201cThe proposed ASM America Scottsdale facility will include a state-of-the-art fabrication and testing laboratories, ancillary fabrication uses, engineering offices, and other related uses to support the function of the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n The company specializes in the design, manufacturing and service of semiconductor fabrication equipment.<\/p>\n It creates \u201cwafer deposition tools\u201d to support a crucial semiconductor manufacturing step that applies ultra-thin layers of materials onto a silicon wafer to build electronic circuits<\/p>\n Why Scottsdale, 5,400 miles from the Netherlands?<\/p>\n \u201cASM has carefully chosen this site for its flagship facility to be in the heart of a growing technology and research hub around the city of Scottsdale Airport community,\u201d last year\u2019s application noted.<\/p>\n \u201cASM plans to bring the latest developments and innovative processes to the region\u2019s growing technology sector.\u201d<\/p>\n At the Dec. 11 DRB meeting, ASM requested approval of a site plan and building elevations for the expansion of the service yard and associated screening on its 21-acre parcel at the future intersection of East Mayo Boulevard and the N. 76th Street\/Miller Road alignment.<\/p>\n The new request rationale: \u201cTo support the operations of ASM\u2019s facility, a bulk gas production\/storage system and water reclamation system have been designed.<\/p>\n \u201cThese systems are required to be close to the lab building and service yard due to the unique characteristics of each system and will contain a range of pad mounted tanks, pumps, and equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n ASM wants to use masonry walls and metal panels as screens.<\/p>\n \u201cEach material matches the existing building palette previously approved for the office, lab, and parking garage scope for this project.\u201d<\/p>\n The DRB unanimously approved the request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you hear the one about the project doing an expansion\u00a0 before it\u2019s even completed? That, in a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":468614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[213039,5229,5643,213041,1587,6576,1589,7600,213040,1959,2024,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-468613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-advanced-semiconductor-materials","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-asm-america-scottsdale-facility","12":"tag-az","13":"tag-netherlands","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-scottsdale","16":"tag-scottsdale-facility","17":"tag-semiconductor","18":"tag-technology-sector","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115773867696724598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}