Misconceptions of a Key Community Contributor

Our article from a couple of months ago now titled, “Tracy City Attorney’s Power Trip Hands Manteca $Millions,” which focused on how City Attorney Bijal Patel’s anti-business agenda cost Tracy a TopGolf, generated a significant amount of misguided comments suggesting that Prologis isn’t a valuable member of our business community. These commenters will have you believe that Prologis forced their way into Tracy against the will of the people. But this wasn’t the case at all.

The reason our city officials wanted Prologis here is for the quality jobs and revenue it would create for the city. Business Facilities reporter Heidi Schwartz, covering the 2015 ground breaking of the Prologis International Park of Commerce, quoted then Tracy Mayor Brent Ives as saying, "This project will allow many of our residents to improve their quality of life by ending their daily commute and securing a job in Tracy.” Read the article here .

By all accounts, Prologis has been a positive contributor to Tracy, and has above and beyond met the expectations they promised when they came here. A recent piece by Donna Baker in the Tracy Press titled “The Real in Real Estate – Prologis and the Tracy community” encapsulates the positive impact Prologis has had on our city and illustrates why Bijal Patel’s attack against businesses in Tracy is misdirected and harmful.

“In 2021, Prologis and its customers created over 10,000 jobs in SJC and over 5,400 jobs in Tracy. In fact, more than 94 percent of the jobs created by Prologis and its customers since 2014 are permanent operations jobs. Through their partnership with WorkNet, a local workforce development agency, Prologis has provided training for logistics careers to over 650 Tracy residents and placed 355 individuals into logistics-specific jobs. These positions offer sustainable career pathways to hundreds of residents and directly support the local economy…”   

You can read Ms. Baker’s entire Tracy Press piece here .