SAN DIEGO—Two things in particular have risen in importance withtoday's industrial tenants that they weren'trequesting as little as five years ago, MurphyDevelopment EVP and partner Kaitlin Arduino tells GlobeSt.com. The firmhas signed five leases this year, totaling 386,401 squarefeet—including three new leases—at the Campus atSan Diego Business Park in Otay Mesa. Tenantsinclude the GSA; kSARIA, a leaderin fiber-optic-connectivity manufacturingtechnology; Brokerage and LogisticsSolutions Inc., a binational integrated logistics-servicescompany; Panasonic; andMainfreight, a logistics company headquartered inNew Zealand.

After having built the original project in the mid-'80s, Murphyreacquired approximately half of the business park earlier thisyear from the Panasonic Corp. of North America andrenamed it the Campus at San Diego Business Park. The project isundergoing a $15-million renovation that includes new landscaping,outdoor amenities, new energy-efficient glass on all offices, newlobbies, additional dock-high and grade doors and solar-systemupgrades.