Maricopa County has issued a $5 million permit for hydrogen fueling equipment at Walmart’s new fulfillment campus in west Glendale, adding a major operating system to one of the West Valley’s largest industrial buildings.
The permit, issued Nov. 5, covers a 10,000-square-foot installation at 7733 N. Litchfield Road, the 1.27 million-square-foot Building C at the Luke Field logistics campus. County records describe a hydrogen equipment pad, dispenser, distribution system and equipment-fueling area. McCownGordon Construction is listed as the contractor.
The newly issued permit is a construction milestone. It does not establish that the fueling system is operating or that the fulfillment center has opened. The county record also does not identify how many vehicles the equipment will serve or give a completion date.
Hydrogen planned for material handling
The permit refers to equipment fueling rather than public vehicle sales. Walmart has used hydrogen fuel cells for warehouse material-handling equipment for years. In a 2022 supply agreement, Plug Power said it would supply Walmart with liquid green hydrogen for as many as 9,500 lift trucks across the retailer’s U.S. distribution and fulfillment centers.
That national program provides context for the Glendale installation, but neither the county permit nor the 2022 agreement specifies the equipment count planned for Building C. The permit’s $5 million valuation reflects the declared value of the permitted work, not necessarily Walmart’s total investment in the site.
A large new Walmart logistics site
Building C is the largest of three buildings in the 2.4 million-square-foot Luke Field campus, near Litchfield Road and Northern Avenue. Walmart bought the building in late 2025 for $152.2 million, according to Lincoln Property Company, which developed the campus with Goldman Sachs.
Lincoln lists the other Luke Field buildings at 695,750 and 454,761 square feet. Together, the campus forms part of the broader Park303 industrial corridor near Loop 303, one of the growth areas documented in the West Valley Post Loop 303 Development and Infrastructure Tracker.
Walmart job postings now identify the Glendale operation as an e-commerce fulfillment center and use the location code PHX2. Those postings indicate the company is staffing leadership and operations roles, while the permit record shows specialized facility work is still moving through the county process.
The hydrogen installation is classified as an accessory commercial project and refers to a separate main building permit. That distinction matters: the Nov. 5 action authorizes this portion of the work, but it is not a certificate of occupancy or an opening announcement.
What comes next
The next verifiable milestones will be completion and inspection of the permitted equipment, any occupancy approvals tied to the main building, and an opening or operating announcement from Walmart. The county’s weekly permit report for Nov. 2-8 lists the hydrogen work under permit BLDC2600417.
West Valley Post will update this report as those records establish the system’s operating status or Walmart confirms the facility’s launch timeline.
Featured image: Representative editorial illustration created with AI. It depicts generic hydrogen-powered warehouse material handling and does not show the actual Glendale site or project design.
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