Reach 18 Million Consumers

The Port of Stockton — the West Coast’s eastern most seaport — is 14 miles northwest of Manteca. Amazon cargo jets land four to six times daily at Stockton Airport 10 miles north of Manteca.

You can’t run a successful business today unless you can get your product to customers as fast as possible.

At the same time you need to keep overhead costs low, have a reliable workforce, and be in a location that maximizes your potential.

It is little wonder that Manteca and nearby communities have emerged as a major epicenter for distribution for firms serving the lucrative San Francisco Bay Area-San Jose and Sacramento markets.

Manteca is at not only at the bulls-eye of 18 million consumers within 100 miles it has everything you need in terms of logistics to ship goods whether it is by freeway, by rail, by air and by water.

That unique combination of being at the epicenter of what is the third largest 100-mile radius consumer market in the United States — behind Manhattan and Los Angeles County — is what has made Manteca so appealing to firms wanting to get the maximum efficiency out of distribution centers. The list includes DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Parts, Home Depot, JC Penney, Tesla, Lineage Refrigeration, Dryers Ice Cream, Wayfair and scores of smaller firms.

They can reach consumers in job-rich Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Sacramento that are all within 65 miles of Manteca as well as reach to Fresno and elsewhere from one central location

It is also why investors — major insurance funds to developers — have also built over a two million square feet with significantly more the drawing board to position themselves to take full advantage of economic growth.

There are ready-to-move in cube-style business parks with up to 100,000 square feet that allow firms to move the quick decisions they need in the changing competitive world of commerce.

But more than anything else, the location of Manteca combined with unparalleled transit options makes it ideal in this day and age of on-time inventory aimed at keeping costs down while being able to respond quickly to consumer demand.

Transit infrastructure available to businesses in Manteca include: • The Highway 99 corridor that is known as the “Main Street of California” in terms of the movement of everything from agriculture to consumer products. • Interstate 5 that runs from Mexico to Canada to connect with all major Pacific Coast markets. Interstate 5 runs through Lathrop and Highway 99 through Manteca and are connected by the seven-mile long Highway 120 Bypass. • Union Pacific Railroad has a major rail-to-truck intermodal operation sandwiched between Manteca and Lathrop that has had a major increase in traffic to the point they are preparing to expand the operation. • Santa Fe Railroad also has a major rail-to-truck intermodal operation just 10 miles northeast of Manteca to provide concerns located in Manteca-Lathrop with access to both major rail carriers serving the Western Unified States. • Stockton Metro Airport is 10 miles north of Manteca. Amazon is among those taking advantage of the airport’s strategic location with four to six cargo flights a day. It also has an extended runway that accommodates larger jets. A major business park is moving into the development stage on the northeast corner of the airport. • Port of Stockton is 14 miles northwest of Manteca. It is the furthest eastern seaport on the West Cost and supports a wide variety of endeavors from shipping agricultural commodity, fertilizers through firms such as Simplot and importers such as Pier One Imports that maintain distribution centers at the port. • Interstate 205 — with a junction just three miles southwest of Manteca on Interstate 5 — is the major Bay Area connector.