LOS ANGELES-Pacific Industrial, an industrial developer and acquisition platform, has acquired 39 acres in Bell City to develop the Pacific Business Center, a 550,000-square-foot industrial property in Bell, CA. Set on 22.8 acres, the development will feature three class-A warehouses.

"The majority of the inventory in the central Los Angeles market is functionally obsolete,” says Brian Torp, HFF associate director, who along with managing director Don Curtis represented Pacific Industrial in the transaction. “Pacific Business Center will be the best-in-class industrial project in this submarket."

In total, the property is situated on 39 acres. BNSF currently leases the remaining 13.7 acres not included in this development project. Pacific Industrial plans to develop the space BNSF currectly occupies in 2018. The site is in a prime Los Angeles industrial location, only six miles from Downtown Los Angeles and within close proximity to the 710 and 5 freeways.

According to recent research from CBRE, third quarter industrial development in Southern California is leading the nation. Los Angeles currently has 3.2 million square feet of industrial development under construction and a 2.4% vacancy rate. These numbers are the highest since the 2008 recession, and are indicative of significant recovery in the industrial sector. The Inland Empire is, of course, Southern California's most active submarket with nearly 14 million square feet of industrial space under construction in the third quarter.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.