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How Are We Still Finding Land for New Industrial?

LOS ANGELES—Despite the frequently touted lack of available land, Duke Realty manages to buy a 22.6-acre infill site to develop a 475,000-square-foot distribution center, which will no doubt be leased before its built, GlobeSt.com reports EXCLUSIVELY.

By Kelsi Maree Borland | Updated on October 28, 2016
Clyde Stauff Clyde Stauff is a senior EVP at Colliers International.

LOS ANGELES—We need industrial space. The industrial vacancy rate in Los Angeles is sub 2%, and even lower in some submarkets. With the push for more product, developers are managing to scrounge up every last piece of available land for new industrial development. Every time it happens, we hear that this site is one of the last industrial land development sites in all of Los Angeles County. It has happened again. GlobeSt.com has learned exclusively that Duke Realty Co. has acquired a 22.6-acre land site from Chevron USA in La Mirada with plans to build a 475,000-square-foot distribution facility.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed, although there was strong competition for the site. The deal was fully marketed through Colliers International‘s Investment Services Group by managing director Bret Hardy and senior EVP Clyde Stauff, both of whom also represented the buyer in the deal. “There was very strong interest in the property as it is one of the last major “infill” sites available in the greater Los Angeles market,” Stauff tells GlobeSt.com about the marketing process. “Almost all of the interested developers favored a development plan for a single, state-of-the-art cross dock logistics facility that would attract an e-commerce logistics tenancy.”

It isn’t surprising that the deal received a lot of attention. In this industrial climate, even low quality sites are getting attention, but this one is not low quality. It is in a great location between Los Angeles and Orange County and has immediate freeway access to reach anywhere in Southern California. “The central location will provide for “same day” or “two hour” delivery for a large logistics company servicing the greater Los Angeles area,” says Stauff, who adds that the site formerly served as a pumping station for Chevron’s pipeline operation, which was consolidated into a smaller area at the same location, “allowing for the redevelopment of the site.”

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