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City of Puyallup

Doing Business in Puyallup

Once the center of agriculture in East Pierce County, Puyallup has grown and matured into a city with a rich historic downtown and a modern, growing employment base on South Hill.  Puyallup's location is central to the four-county Puget Sound region and provides easy proximity to greater Puget Sound and its international ports.  The city serves as market cross-roads in east Pierce County and is connected to the major state freeways servicing Central Puget Sound.  Puyallup's location on the main west coast rail routes provides easy access for Sound Transit's Sounder regional commuter rail service with connections to the Tacoma, Seattle and Everett markets.

Top Puyallup Businesses

MultiCare-Good Samaritan Hospital - The hospital is Puyallup's largest employer with the equivalent of 2,300 full-time employees.  The new, nine story patient tower, expected to be completed in February 2011 at a cost of over $400 million, expands bed capacity to 225.  At full build out by 2016 the hospital is licensed for a 275-bed capacity and is expected to employ 2,500.

Puyallup Fair & Events Center - The Puyallup Fair & Events Center is located just south of Puyallup's historic Pioneer Park and downtown Puyallup.  According to the Fair's economic study commission in 2004, this year round, private non-profit business generated $208.7 million in economic activity. 

The South Hill Mall - The South Hill Mall has been a very successful suburban retail center for over 20 years.  The Mall and surrounding retail area provides over $660 million in annual retail sales in Puyallup.  The Mall owners, Cafaro Partnership, are actively engaged in strategic planning and assessment of the types of redevelopment to consider for future customer growth.

The South Hill Business and Technology Center (Benaroya) - The Benaroya site had been a stagnant 92-acre campus, unused and vacant for nearly a decade.  Benaroya Companies bought the property and immediately began rennovations (totalling over $4.5 million) to convert the property into a class A business park with flexible office space.  The site is ideally suited for clean technology, biomedical device manufacturing, data centers, research and development, and corporate office space.  Parametrix Engineering recently announced the consolidation of two Sumner offices that will be moved to the South Hill Business and Technology Center.

Newcomers

O'Reilly Auto Parts located its Seattle-area distribution center in the Levee Road area of Puyallup in 2009.  The company bought a vacant 380,000 square foot building at 1602 Industrial Park Way and expects to employee 300-400 workers.  With over 40,000 team members at more than 3,200 stores in 38 states, O'Reilly Auto Parts is one of the top three auto parts chains in the Country.

St. Gobain Performance Plastics moved from its Rainier Valley plant in 2009 bringing 115 employees to Puyallup.  The company moved into the 109,000 square foot IDX building, which was last used by a high-end cabinet and display case manufactuing company.  Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics is a division of a French multinational corporation ranked 110 on Fortune Global 500 list of businesses.  The business has served the aerospace and OEM industries for over 40 years developing products and processes for limitless applications to the aerospace, medical, industrial, transportation and computer markets.

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