PANORAMA CITY, CA-A former auto plant for General Motors has a new function--warehouse and showroom for Living Spaces Furniture. The $20-million site takes over for what was once part of the automaker's largest plant on the West Coast.

The site is Living Spaces Furniture's first in the San Fernando Valley and will join its headquarters in La Mirada and a large site in Rancho Cucamonga. For the new building, Living Spaces will raze the 100,000-sf former GM building and put up an 85,000-sf warehouse in its place. The company plans to employ 300 at the site.

According to Don Wade, senior estimator with Oltmans Construction Co., the firm building the property, the tilt-up structure will include a 38-foot clearance and will also include showroom space that will bring the project to 105,000 sf.