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18,300 SF Commissary – Commercial Kitchen for lease, Los Angeles

Long cooking hood in the commercial kitchen

This is preliminary notice that a 18,300 square foot food production facility will be coming available in Downtown Los Angeles, DTLA as a new listing for lease. Near City of Vernon. Currently a commercial kitchen and commissary for meal kit prep. Refrigerated rooms include a cooler and freezer, grease trap / clarifier, hoods, floor drains, ground level loading doors, and 2 fenced parking lots.

County Health Dept permitted for food processing. A tenant could upgrade to USDA, BRC, or SQF food safety standards.

Versatile building for general food production such as meals, bakery, desserts, pasta, produce, vegan or vegetarian or plant-based, sandwiches, mexican foods, seafood, sushi, tamales, burritos, sauces, beverages. Or convert into ghost kitchens.

Feel free to register preliminary interest by using the contact page.

Refrigerated freezer storage
Several health department approved 3 stage sinks.

56k SF Warehouse MFG Building, for sale

  • Corner 2.23 Acre Parcel with Large, Fenced Yard
  • 56,338 SF Dock High Buildings on 97,138 SF Land
  • Concrete Bow-Truss & Brick Warehouses
  • M2 Zone – MFG, Distribution, Creative Campus
  • Between 110 Fwy & Alameda St, 10 Min to DTLA
  • Opportunity Zone Tax Benefits for User or Investor
2.23 Acre Corner Parcel with multiple warehouses and large fenced yard. Los Angeles California.

This is a great opportunity for an investor to purchase a multi-tenant industrial property, add some value by sprucing it up and leasing it out to multiple tenants. The asking price is very reasonable considering there are almost no properties that can compete with the many cool factors of these buildings and especially the large amount of parking estimated at 130 spaces.

An investor would be hard pressed to find a property with the large parking ratio offered here. This is very important if you intend to attract creative tenants from the DTLA Arts District.

The property suits a regular distribution warehouse use well given it has 9 truck high dock loading positions and that can be expanded by perhaps 5 more doors. The heavy power of 1,600 amps is attractive to a manufacturer or cannabis industry user.

Only 10 minutes south of Downtown Los Angeles Central Business District and 5 minutes east of the 110 Freeway. Easy access to the Ports of L.A. Near Alameda St. and the City of Vernon.

This new listing should prove interesting to all types of buyers including 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange buyers. Plus the Opportunity Zone location allows for Federal tax benefits by reducing or eliminating capital gains upon a sale in later years.

Coca-Cola Building in DTLA Arts District

The online coupon company, Honey, has signed a lease to occupy the former Coca-Cola syrup manufacturing plant in 2019. Hudson Pacific, the property owner,  paid $49 million in 2015 and renamed the site to Fourth+Traction. They purchased it from GPI who purchased it for $19 million in 2014. One of my colleagues and I represented the buyer in that sale, where they then more than doubled their money flipping it. The seller then was a woman related to the man that once occupied the building as a toy distributor, T.T. Toys.

The Honey lease follows other recent DTLA Arts District transactions such as Warner Music at the Ford Building and Spotify at the At Mateo complex.

Historical photo below showing occupancy of Coca-Coca at the building.  

Street Art – Enhancing Los Angeles Buildings

Los Angeles has an abundance of street art, especially DTLA and in the DTLA Arts District. I and many downtown dwellers view and define “street art” as artwork in a public space that has a generally pleasing design. Contrast that with typical street-gang graffiti, which was primarily composed of dreadfully designed words and dominated the public realm prior to 2000. Most denizens consider graffiti to be blight. Street art adds value to the public realm as well as property values, especially in areas such as the Arts District. Check out some great examples here: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/lastreetart/. A large portion of DTLA street art has been painted on industrial buildings.

Street art is not exclusive to gentrifying areas. See below in the heart of Skid Row with homeless encampments.