Category Archives: Deal File

Noteworthy completed sale or lease transactions.

SOLD – Food Processing Building with Freezers and Coolers, $6,850,000

I just closed a sale transaction for a 16,600 square foot food production building in the City of Paramount located next to the 710 Freeway and Alondra Blvd in Los Angeles County, California. The agreed upon price was $6,850,000. I previously had this in escrow with a high-net-worth buyer who was also a world-famous restaurant operator. However he decided at the last minute to outsource the production of his frozen food line and thus cancelled the contract while forfeiting his deposit. I immediately called another food company in my extensive industrial company contact database and they expressed interest in the facility.

Soon enough my second buyer was under contract and in escrow to purchase this facility while conducting their due diligence and obtaining SBA financing. Several weeks ago we closed the transaction.

The facility was formerly occupied by a food production company that made ready to cook bowls of frozen meals. The new company will re-certify the facility with the USDA in order to use it for meat processing of beef and poultry. Many years ago the facility was used to manufacture frozen Chinese dumplings.

See below floor plan to understand the extensive buildout of specialized food rooms like freeers, coolers, and processing room with floor drains.

Additionally the building was located in a secure business park, had dock high loading, and dedicated parking spaces. The location is between Downtown Los Angeles, Vernon, and Commerce to the north and the port of LA to the south.

You may Contact me with any questions.

2900 WIlshire Blvd development

A development is planned on a parcel of land Hankey Investment Co purchased in 2009 for $7 million. They purchased the property via public auction. Hankey plans to build a 31-story residential and mixed-use tower with Jamison Properties, a prominent developer in Koreatown. One of Hankey’s companies, Midway car rental, operated on the site for many years. The land is located on the southwest corner of Wilshire and Hoover. 

Matthew Artukovich of Lee & Associates sold 2.5 acres of land here in 2005 for $11.3M representing the seller, Right Hero Industries USA. The site is located across from Lafayette Park and is near Southwestern Law School (former Bullocks Wilshire building), and the Vermont/Wilshire metro subway station.

2019 UPDATE: see Urbanize.la June 2019 article with fresh info and building renderings. 

LEASED – 18,300 SF Food Processing Building in Los Angeles

An 18,300 square foot food processing building was leased this month to a vegan meal prep and delivery company based in Los Angeles. They needed this space for their expanding business of shipping prepared meals across the country.

los angeles food processing building with floor drains, cooking hood, washable walls, cooler
Downtown L.A. food processing building with floor drains, cooking hood, washable walls, cooler.

The facility was previously occupied by Revolution Foods who prepared school lunches here for Los Angeles charter schools. The new tenant signed a long term lease and will make some improvements to the space. BROCHURE-SitePlan 1715 E 21st LEASED

22 Acre Site Sells in Vernon

TriMas Corp. sells a 22-acre site at 5215 S. Boyle Ave. in Vernon to AMB Property Corp. Originally developed from the 1940s through the 1960s to support Norris Industries defense operations, 5215 S. Boyle Ave. includes more than 400,000 square feet of heavy manufacturing buildings with several existing leases currently in place.

According to an SEC filing, the purchase price was for $13 million, all cash. AMB would not confirm the price. AMB plans to market the vacancies at the property in the short-term with a long-range goal of repositioning the site in order to maximize the significant upside potential in the land enhancing the value of the parcel.

The purchase represents AMB’s first development project in Vernon, a city that consists almost entirely of industrial properties located approximately five miles southeast of Los Angeles. The city is home to more than 1,800 businesses which employ approximately 50,000 individuals. Vernon also consistently boasts one of the lowest vacancy rates in the greater Los Angeles area.

AMB purchased the site for substantially below current land sale value for clean & graded sites ready for construction.

45 Unit Distressed Industrial Condo Project Sells

hallrdAn industrial real estate new condominium development project consisting of  176,000 square feet of space sold this month to a local real estate developer.  The site is located in the City of Downey, Los Angeles County.  All cash closing!  Class A construction and never occupied.   The sale price was in the mid to high fifty dollar range per square foot of building area for this asset in foreclosure.