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Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) has completed a 318,397-square-foot industrial early lease extension and expansion valued at $11.8 million with Cambro Manufacturing, Inc., in City of Industry, California. The early lease extension is for 318,000 square feet and extends the term 64 months beyond the natural lease expiration in April 2017. The deal also includes the potential for Cambro Manufacturing to expand 215,000 square feet into an adjacent building in 2017.
Senior Managing Directors Wesley Hunnicutt and Matthew Moore from NGKF’s Newport Beach office represented Cambro Manufacturing, a Huntington Beach-based company with facilities worldwide. The landlord, Prudential-Grand Avenue Venture LLC, was represented by Marc Selznick of Unire Real Estate.
Located at 21558 Ferrero Parkway and situated on nearly 15 acres, Cambro Manufacturing has been a tenant for many years, using the facility for distributing finished goods that are manufactured at the company’s Huntington Beach facility. Cambro Manufacturing manufactures a wide variety of products and offers services including table service and display items, storage, shelving, merchandising and insulated product transport for companies within the foodservice industry.
“Our Industrial Services team negotiated a significant allowance from the landlord to make facility improvements including LED lighting upgrades and office space modifications that required immediate installation due to our client’s internal objectives,” said Hunnicutt. “We secured this early lease extension 18 months in advance of the scheduled expiration and were able to negotiate the opportunity to expand into a 215,000-square-foot portion of the adjacent building, which is occupied by a tenant through December 2017 at a locked-in lease rate.”
Moore added, “Our goal for Cambro Manufacturing was realized as we were able to insulate the client from a rising rental rate environment while securing a favorable economic package. The reality is that industrial real estate costs are significantly increasing and vacancy for quality product is less than 2 percent. If we had held off addressing our client’s continued tenancy in the building until late 2016, the costs could have easily increased by 10 to 15 percent in comparison to what we were able to achieve.”
The greater Los Angeles industrial market vacancy is at a historic low. Facilities that compare to the quality and size of Cambro’s existing space are seeing vacancies below one and a half percent.
“We anticipate rents will continue to increase seven to eight percent in this market over the next 12 months,” noted Hunnicutt. “Concessions are beginning to diminish and landlords are becoming increasingly bullish. Tenants who are evaluating future lease expirations require strategic thinking not only for how they negotiate, but also how early they begin implementing the process.”
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