Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Phoenix Industrial Land: Opportunity Zone or Industrial Nightmare? #shorts

16 May 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief YouTube short, Tommy Dobczyk and a co‑speaker discuss a vacant industrial parcel in Phoenix that is designated as an Opportunity Zone. They note the site’s physical attributes—city‑finished surface, electric service, barbed‑wire fencing, automatic gates, LED lighting—and speculate that the city may own the land. Using Google Maps, they observe the property has been empty since around 2024, with a recent history of truck storage after COVID, and earlier uses as car and RV storage. The conversation also highlights a broader trend of declining auto‑mall and car‑lot activity in the area, suggesting the parcel could be ripe for redevelopment or alternative industrial uses.

Are you a land shark doing deals? Industrial, right? And so it says city finish surface, electric and barbed wire fence, automatic gates, LED, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's in Opportunity Zone land. That's cool. I think the other side to this would be that we would need to find out who the owner is. And I've got a good guess that the owner's the city.
Yeah, and I looked on Google Maps and it's been vacant since 2024, I'm pretty sure, but it never gave a statement of previous ownership. But I'm pretty sure after COVID it was a truck storage, before then it was a car and RV storage. So we're kind of switched around over time.
Car lots over there, there's a lot of car lots over there, but they're moving away. That, that auto mall industry over there is shutting down and moving away. So there's, there's potential to play around here.