The Douglas Park redevelopment project is slated to arrive two years ahead of schedule. The 283-acre reimagined former aviation field will house 4.1 million square feet of industrial, office, retail and hospitality facilities, and Virgin Orbit, Shimadzu Precision Instruments, Universal Technical Institute and Mercedes-Benz have already signed on as tenants. The project began in 2011 and will deliver sometime this year. We sat down for an exclusive interview with John Keisler, Director of Economic Development for the City of Long Beach, to talk about the development project.

GlobeSt.com: How is the execution of the Douglas Park master redevelopment tracking with the original overall vision in terms of mix of tenants and uses? 

John Keisler: Douglas Park has been an incredible learning experience as well as a tremendous economic development success story for the City.  Although we envisioned a robust mix of advanced aerospace manufacturing tenants, we could have never anticipated the robust response from the neighborhood-serving storefront medical and retail sectors that now call Douglas Park home.

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