POMONA, CA-Seventh Street Development of Long Beach, CA has started the second phase of its 462,000-square-foot Mission-71 Business Park. The new 213,000-square-foot phase will consist of three separate buildings of 42,000, 51,000 and 120,000 square feet, each of which will feature state-of-the-art industrial building design including up to 30-foot clear heights, fenced yards, ESFR sprinkler systems, excess parking, and build-to-suit, two-story office components. The buildings in the second phase will be offered for sale or lease. As Seventh Street explains in an announcement regarding the first phase, it recently sold the tenth of its 11 buildings in phase one to Eden Equipment Co., which bought an 18,500-square-foot building.

Seventh Street also explains that the traffic flow at Mission-71 Business Park has been improved significantly with the City of Pomona's completion of the $47.6 Million Mission Boulevard Overpass. The new four way interchange, which removes an existing at-grade signaled intersection at Mission Boulevard, remedies a major traffic problem on the 15-mile California State Route 71, an important commuter traffic corridor connecting the Pomona Valley to cities of Western Riverside County.

For years, commuters on the 71 Freeway have been frustrated by the stoplight at Mission Boulevard, says Craig Furniss, president of Seventh Street Development, which has developed more than one million square feet of industrial space in the San Gabriel Valley including the 56-acre Mission-71 Business Park which sits on the northeast corner of Mission Boulevard and the 71.