Edwards Lifesciences Corp., the second largest public company in Orange County, is looking to expand its headquarters again. The expansion calls for the Irvine medical device maker to modify its master plan and expand its existing campus by adding 2,340 square feet to a 95,745-square-foot warehouse at 17192 Daimler St. Read More
Economic uncertainty toward the end of 2024 and heading into 2025, in addition to an office market that hasn’t fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, were among the reasons cited for Orange County’s tenant improvement contractors collectively reporting a 5.6% loss in work in 2024 compared to the year before. Read More
Anaheim Industrial Sale A 130,000-square-foot industrial building at 5001 E. La Palma Ave. in Anaheim was sold for nearly $39 million, according to public records. Japanese zipper manufacturer YKK Corporation of America was the seller, per the grant deed. The buyer, according to the grant deed, was Augusta 5001 La Read More
The Fountain Valley Planning Commission unanimously recommended plans for a proposed 18-acre housing development near Mile Square Park. Euclid + Heil, proposed Irvine-based Shopoff Realty Investments, would bring 304 market-rate apartments, 83 senior affordable units, 36 two-level for-sale triplexes and 183 three-level for-sale townhomes to 16300 Euclid St. in Fountain Read More
Ford Motor Co. is shutting down a design studio it operates in Irvine, resulting in 263 layoffs. The closure of Ford Design Studio, located at 3 Glen Bell Way in Irvine, was announced in a June 30 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, letter. Ford Design Studio will close Read More
A 134,000-square-foot industrial building in Santa Ana that’s fully occupied by The Home Depot was recently bought by a Bellevue, Washington-based real estate investment trust, or REIT. Late last month, Terreno Realty Corp. bought The Home Depot retail location at 3500 W. MacArthur Blvd. in Santa Ana for $49.5 million, Read More
Students pursuing a career in business, education, information technology and law at Orange County’s Westcliff University probably don’t realize their professional lives are intertwined with the fall of Saigon in 1975. But Dr. Anthony Lee is here in Orange County as a direct result of his father escaping the Southeast Read More
Oliver Chi, Irvine’s city manager since December 2021, stepped down Sunday to become Santa Monica’s city manager, capping a tenure marked by the city’s $1.2 billion expansion of the 300-acre Great Park neighborhood and the $600 million Gateway Village project. Not to be overlooked, however, are Irvine’s plans to build Read More
A 5,680-square-foot house with four bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms in Dana Point’s The Strand at Headlands neighborhood sold for nearly $11 million. An undisclosed buyer snatched the house sitting on a 15,712-square-foot homesite at Monarch Beach on June 16. Jeffrey Golden, an agent with Coldwell Banker Realty, represented the seller. Read More
A remodeled estate sitting on four acres within Coto de Caza’s Los Ranchos Estates neighborhood is under new ownership, with a buyer closing escrow on 31731 Capuchina Way for nearly $7.5 million on June 18. The 10,323-square-foot estate with five bedrooms and 7.5 bathrooms was on the market for nearly Read More
