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Anduril Industries is leasing a large chunk of local warehouse space less than a mile from its Costa Mesa headquarters, pushing its total Orange County presence to roughly 1.1 million square feet.
The commercial space Anduril plans to occupy spans 313,244 square feet at Lake Center Office Park in Santa Ana, according to various Orange County industrial market reports. The former Lake Center office complex, owned by C.J. Segerstrom & Sons, has been demolished and is being redeveloped with intended uses that include manufacturing and warehousing.
The Segerstroms gained the city of Santa Ana’s approval in August to convert the office campus into a three-building industrial development for $126 million. Irvine-based RM Dalton is doing the site construction work.
It will be called South Coast Technology Center when it is built.
C.J. Segerstrom & Sons, through its family affiliations, own and operate South Coast Plaza, Orange County’s most valuable shopping center, as well as some of the best-known office towers in the South Coast Metro area
Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE also listed Anduril’s new lease at 3100-3120 Lake Center Drive on their respective market reports for Q1 2025.
Anduril’s Plans Not Yet Revealed
It’s unclear what Anduril plans to use the site for. The company did not return a request for comment.
The lease is the latest step in the company’s expansion since its founding in a modest building near John Wayne Airport in 2017.
In 2022, Anduril moved to The Press, the former site of the Los Angeles Times printing plant in Costa Mesa, providing the company with 640,000 square feet of leased space in a sprawling campus setting.
The company has another industrial building in Santa Ana, closer to the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway. It leases about 72,000 square feet at the Shea Business Center, a nearly 500,000-square-foot industrial development along Dyer Road.
Anduril is also building a 5-million-square-foot mega-factory near Columbus, Ohio, that is scheduled to start producing weapons, sensors and systems as of next year.
The company also has a solid rocket motor factory in Mississippi, a robotic submarine facility in Rhode Island, a factory in Georgia, a manufacturing plant in Australia and production facilities in California.
Segerstroms Plan South Coast Technology Center
South Coast Technology Center could be used for light industrial such as corporate offices, research and development space, manufacturing and warehousing, Santa Ana officials said when the project was approved last summer. Plans call for building three class A industrial flex buildings totaling 313,000 square feet.
“The project will include outdoor patios, landscaping, surface parking, (electric vehicle) charging stations, a community park and improvements to nearby streets and sidewalks,” according to a city of Santa Ana statement in August. “The 313,000-square-foot complex will future-proof the business center by introducing new allowed uses reflecting current and future economic trends.”