Specialized Industrial Site Entitlement & Energy Infrastructure
Apex Industrial Holdings is a California-based infrastructure development firm focused on the acquisition, entitlement, and utility optimization of industrial real estate assets.
Our approach prioritizes utility availability, zoning alignment, and long-term operational viability prior to land acquisition. We develop infrastructure that serves fundamental economic needs across multi-decade timeframes.
Investment Philosophy
Apex operates with a generational perspective on infrastructure development. We identify and secure sites positioned to support essential industrial operations regardless of economic cycles or technological shifts.
Industrial infrastructure supporting cold storage, food processing, and energy distribution remains constant across economic environments. Our portfolio strategy emphasizes utility capacity, regulatory certainty, and operational flexibility to ensure asset relevance across decades.
Geographic Focus
California's Central Valley and coastal industrial corridors represent stable jurisdictions with established utility infrastructure, agricultural processing demand, and transportation networks. Our site selection process emphasizes locations with proven industrial zoning frameworks and utility provider relationships spanning multiple decades.
Core Markets
- Central Valley agricultural processing corridors
- Established industrial zones with utility infrastructure in place
- Sites with proximity to freight rail and interstate highway systems
- Jurisdictions with consistent industrial permitting history
Guiding Principles for Long-Term Infrastructure Development
Our investment approach is governed by principles that prioritize infrastructure permanence, regulatory certainty, and operational viability over financial speculation.
These principles define how we evaluate sites, structure partnerships, and allocate capital. They are operational constraints, not aspirational goals.
Infrastructure Permanence
We develop sites intended to support industrial operations across multiple decades. Our investments serve fundamental economic needs—food preservation, agricultural processing, energy distribution—that remain constant regardless of market cycles or technological trends.
Infrastructure assets are evaluated based on operational utility, not speculative appreciation. We prioritize locations with established demand patterns, proven utility capacity, and regulatory frameworks capable of supporting long-term industrial use.
Cold storage facilities built in the 1970s continue operating today because refrigeration remains essential to food distribution. We build with the same permanence in mind, developing sites positioned to serve economic fundamentals for generations.
Regulatory Certainty Over Market Timing
Apex prioritizes regulatory approvals and utility commitments before capital deployment. We do not acquire land based on zoning speculation or utility expansion projections. Sites enter our portfolio only after infrastructure capacity has been verified and development pathways have been established with relevant authorities.
This approach eliminates execution risk associated with speculative entitlement processes. Our sites are development-ready on acquisition, with utility agreements in place and regulatory approvals secured or clearly defined.
Patient Capital Discipline
Infrastructure development operates on timelines measured in years, not quarters. Apex structures investments to accommodate utility construction schedules, municipal review processes, and operational ramp-up periods without forced exit timelines.
We work with capital partners who understand that infrastructure value accrues through operational stability and long-term lease structures, not speculative market timing. Our hold periods align with the operational life of the underlying infrastructure.
Infrastructure built to last requires capital willing to wait. We align with partners who measure success in decades of operational cash flow, not months to exit.
Relationship-Based Operations
Apex maintains long-term relationships with utility providers, municipal planning departments, industrial operators, and infrastructure engineering firms. These relationships enable us to assess site feasibility accurately and execute entitlements predictably.
We prioritize repeat engagements with established counterparties over one-time transactions. Our reputation depends on delivering sites as specified, on timeline, with infrastructure capacity as committed.
Technical Rigor & Operational Focus
Site selection decisions are driven by infrastructure specifications, not financial models. We evaluate electrical capacity in kilowatts, natural gas delivery in therms, and wastewater treatment in gallons per day—not projected IRRs or speculative exit multiples.
Our due diligence emphasizes utility engineering reports, transformer specifications, and regulatory correspondence over market comps and valuation projections. We underwrite sites based on operational capability, not financial assumptions.
Industrial infrastructure serves physical operations with specific utility requirements. We build what works operationally, confident that financial returns follow from operational fundamentals.
Environmental & Community Stewardship
Apex develops sites that support local economic activity and operate within established environmental frameworks. Our projects prioritize industrial uses that complement regional economic patterns—agricultural processing in farming regions, cold storage near distribution corridors.
We work within existing regulatory structures and engage transparently with local planning authorities. Our developments are designed to meet or exceed environmental standards and integrate into established industrial corridors without displacing existing community uses.
Infrastructure built to last must serve the communities in which it operates. We develop sites that support regional employment, enhance local tax bases, and align with long-term community economic development objectives.
Utility-First Development
Apex evaluates industrial sites through an infrastructure-first lens, conducting comprehensive utility assessments before site acquisition. This methodology establishes operational certainty and reduces execution risk across the development timeline.
Infrastructure Assessment Framework
Our due diligence process verifies utility capacity and regulatory approvals before committing capital. This approach eliminates speculative development risk and ensures sites can support intended operations on day one.
- Natural gas availability, transmission capacity, and provider delivery commitments
- Electrical capacity, substation proximity, transformer specifications, and utility upgrade pathways
- Fiber infrastructure, telecommunications redundancy, and carrier access agreements
- Zoning compatibility for industrial, agricultural processing, and energy-intensive uses
- Water and wastewater infrastructure capacity, treatment specifications, and discharge permits
- Transportation access, freight corridor proximity, and heavy vehicle route designations
Entitlement & Regulatory Strategy
Apex coordinates directly with municipal utility providers, county planning departments, and regional infrastructure authorities to secure development approvals before acquisition. This process establishes clear timelines and eliminates regulatory uncertainty.
Our entitlement strategy prioritizes jurisdictions with established industrial permitting frameworks, predictable review processes, and utility providers capable of supporting high-load operations. We avoid speculative markets and focus on established industrial corridors with decades of operational history.
Key Stakeholder Coordination
- Municipal utility providers for capacity reservations and infrastructure commitments
- County planning departments for zoning verification and use permit coordination
- Regional air quality and environmental agencies for emissions permits
- Transportation authorities for access approvals and traffic impact assessments
Risk Mitigation & Value Creation
By securing utility commitments and zoning approvals prior to acquisition, Apex minimizes timeline uncertainty and development cost overruns. This approach ensures that sites enter our portfolio with clear operational pathways and quantified infrastructure costs.
Our methodology transforms raw industrial land into entitled, utility-verified assets suitable for immediate vertical development or long-term hold strategies. This value creation occurs through regulatory certainty rather than market speculation.
Projects
Project Frozen Harvest is a planned cold-chain and food processing development located in California's Central Valley. The project site was selected based on proximity to existing utility infrastructure, established agricultural processing operations, and favorable industrial-agricultural zoning classifications.
The development is designed to support energy-intensive refrigeration and processing operations serving California's agricultural sector. Site infrastructure includes high-capacity electrical service, natural gas availability for process heating, and wastewater capacity suitable for food processing discharge requirements.
Project Specifications
Strategic Rationale
California's Central Valley produces a significant portion of the nation's agricultural output, requiring extensive cold-chain infrastructure for product preservation and distribution. Project Frozen Harvest addresses regional capacity constraints while providing utility-verified infrastructure suitable for long-term industrial operations.
The project site benefits from established industrial zoning, decades of agricultural processing precedent in the jurisdiction, and utility infrastructure capable of supporting high-load operations without requiring speculative grid upgrades.
Project Ironleaf is a planned advanced materials processing and industrial energy campus located in California's Central Valley. The project is designed to support energy-intensive thermal processing, automated manufacturing, and precision-controlled industrial operations requiring high-reliability utility infrastructure.
Site selection prioritized proximity to high-pressure natural gas transmission, scalable electrical capacity, and industrial zoning classifications that permit heavy processing and on-site energy generation.
The development emphasizes infrastructure resilience, utility redundancy, and long-term operational flexibility for industrial tenants with continuous-load requirements.
Project Specifications
Strategic Rationale
Advanced materials processing facilities require stable, high-capacity utility infrastructure to support thermal treatment, automation, and continuous industrial operations. Project Ironleaf targets jurisdictions with established heavy-industrial precedent and existing transmission-grade utilities, minimizing entitlement risk and speculative infrastructure expansion.
The project reflects Apex Industrial Holdings' utility-first development strategy, where site viability is driven by energy and gas capacity rather than conventional real estate metrics.
Project Northframe is a planned mission-critical industrial campus designed to support continuous-operation refrigeration, automation, and process-controlled environments for industrial and logistics users. The development emphasizes infrastructure redundancy, utility resilience, and on-site energy support for operations where downtime is not acceptable.
Site selection prioritized proximity to high-capacity electrical infrastructure, natural gas transmission, and long-haul fiber routes supporting industrial control systems and facility automation.
The project is structured to accommodate a range of industrial users requiring tightly controlled environmental conditions and high-reliability utility service.
Project Specifications
Strategic Rationale
Mission-critical industrial operations require infrastructure designed around reliability rather than peak efficiency. Project Northframe targets jurisdictions with established heavy-industrial precedent and utility systems capable of supporting continuous-load operations with minimal interruption risk.
By prioritizing redundancy, co-generation readiness, and automation-supporting infrastructure, the project aligns with Apex Industrial Holdings' strategy of developing utility-forward industrial sites where infrastructure resilience drives long-term asset value.
Additional project information, including site specifications, utility agreements, and development timelines, is available upon request to qualified institutional partners and operators.
Leadership
Jason B Zamora leads acquisition strategy, utility entitlement, and stakeholder coordination at Apex Industrial Holdings. He serves as the firm's principal decision-maker for site control, infrastructure verification, and development sequencing.
Prior to establishing Apex, Mr. Zamora developed expertise in industrial real estate site selection, utility coordination protocols, and municipal entitlement processes across California's major industrial corridors. His approach emphasizes regulatory certainty and infrastructure verification over speculative market timing.
Areas of Responsibility
- Industrial real estate acquisition and site control negotiations
- Utility provider coordination, capacity planning, and service agreement structuring
- Municipal entitlement strategy, zoning verification, and permit coordination
- Energy infrastructure development, load planning, and operational optimization
- Stakeholder management across utility providers, planning departments, and regulatory agencies
- Long-term portfolio strategy and generational asset positioning
Investment Approach
Our site selection methodology prioritizes infrastructure certainty over market speculation. We focus on established industrial jurisdictions with proven utility capacity, predictable permitting processes, and decades of operational precedent.
Infrastructure development requires patient capital and generational thinking. We build for operational permanence, not market cycles. Our sites serve fundamental economic needs that remain constant regardless of technological trends or economic conditions.
Direct inquiries regarding site availability, partnership structures, and project specifications may be directed to the Managing Partner.
Contact
Apex Industrial Holdings operates on a relationship basis with institutional partners, utility providers, industrial operators, and long-term infrastructure investors.
We work with parties who share our multi-decade perspective on infrastructure development and understand the value of regulatory certainty, utility verification, and operational permanence.
Qualified Counterparties
Apex engages with institutional investors, industrial operators, cold-chain logistics providers, food processing companies, utility-scale infrastructure developers, and other parties capable of long-term capital commitments and operational execution.
We prioritize relationships with entities that maintain established track records in industrial operations, infrastructure development, or institutional real estate investment.
Inquiry Guidelines
- Site-specific inquiries should reference location preferences, operational requirements, and utility specifications
- Partnership discussions should outline capital structure, timeline expectations, and operational capabilities
- Development coordination requests should specify project scope, regulatory requirements, and utility needs
Apex Industrial Holdings
General Inquiries: apex@apexindustrialholdings.com
Managing Partner: jasonbzamora@apexindustrialholdings.com
All inquiries are treated with strict confidentiality. Response times vary based on project stage, due diligence requirements, and operational priorities. Apex does not engage in speculative discussions or provide site information to parties without established institutional credentials or operational track records.