SHURflo, a beverage dispensing equipment manufacturer, is expecting to move its 400 employees into the build-to-suit project, located at the southwest corner of Katella Avenue and Valley View Street, when the project is completed in spring 2002. The corporate campus will include a 50,000-sf office building, a 91,618-sf R&D facility and a 90,000-sf warehouse.

"SHURflo is an extremely employee-focused company, with a highly trained workforce that has very little turnover," noted Mitch Zehner of Voit Commercial's Anaheim Metro office, which represented the tenant. "Therefore, our site search not only included the firm's spatial requirements, but was also very much tied to being geographically near its current location so that it would be easy for the employees to change their workplace. In the final analysis, after combing the county for more than a year, we found that the very best location for the new facility was just 10 miles from the firm's existing location in Garden Grove, where it has been since 1987," he adds.

The new facilities will allow SHURflo to consolidate staff in one location and expand its operations over the next several years. With this transaction, the three-million-sf business center is now 98% leased. Warland Cypress Business Center offers a master-planned business environment. Its tenants include Bank of America, Johnson Controls, Mitsubishi Motors, PerkinElmer, Corning, PacifiCare Information Services, Diebold, American Honda and the Allen Bradley division of Rockwell.