Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill are moving their shared headquarters to a larger, 254,000-square-foot campus on Alton Parkway in Irvine, marking Orange County’s largest new office lease in five years.
Taco Bell, Orange County’s largest restaurant chain, and its sister brand will exit their five-story, 181,000-square-foot headquarters at 1 Glen Bell Way and move within the city to Irvine Company’s Alton HQ campus, previously occupied by Canon U.S.A.
“Our new campus in Irvine is an investment in our people and our future, giving our teams more space to collaborate and create,” Taco Bell and Habit Burger CEOs Sean Tresvant and Shannon Hennessy said in a joint statement provided exclusively to the Business Journal.
The relocation, expected by spring 2028, adds two marquee restaurant brands to Newport Beach-based Irvine Company’s vast collection of local office spaces.
“We are excited to welcome Taco Bell and Habit to the Irvine Company portfolio,” Roger DeWames, president of Irvine Company Office Properties, told the Business Journal.“Working closely with Taco Bell and Habit to customize Alton HQ in Irvine Spectrum around their unique needs reflects our commitment to creating environments that build company culture, drive innovation, and support long-term success.”
Once renovated, the three-building campus in the Spectrum area of the city will have capacity for more than 1,100 people, up from the companies’ current 970, along with nearly double the meeting capacity, a dining center for more than 300 people and a 4,000-square-foot photo studio.
Tresvant and Hennessy said that the new campus “reinforces our long-term commitment to Irvine and the broader Orange County community.”
“As Taco Bell and Habit continue to grow, we want our workplace to grow with us,” they said.
Other campus amenities include an outdoor workspace, a cafe, a fitness center, a sports court and a daycare.
For the Habit Burger, menu developers for the burger chain will get their own test kitchen, replacing their cramped workspace inside a Habit restaurant on Barranca Parkway near The District at Tustin Legacy.
Canon U.S.A. Inc. sold the Alton HQ campus to the Irvine Company in 2022 for $120 million, or $365 per square foot, according to CoStar. The three buildings, at 15955, 15967 and 15975 Alton Parkway, are about a mile from the chain’s current headquarters.
Anne Bretana of Newport Beach-based Gensler is leading the architectural work, with Mark Smith of Mark A. Smith & Associates serving as project manager and Howard Building Corp. as general contractor. CBRE’s Clay Hammerstein from the Los Angeles office and Scott Kenny from the Orange County office represented Taco Bell and Habit in the transaction.
In 2025, Taco Bell reported systemwide sales of $18 billion, a 13% increase from the year before. Habit Burger, Orange County’s seventh largest local chain, generated sales of $706 million last year.
Taco Bell’s current headquarters is owned by a Taiwan-based family office that operates under the Skyline Group International name; it paid a reported $159 million for the complex in 2021.
Taco Bell’s 50 Years in Irvine
Following its founding in Downey, Taco Bell’s corporate offices operated out of Palos Verdes and Torrance before establishing a permanent base in Irvine nearly 50 years ago.
The chain moved into its current Irvine Spectrum headquarters in 2010 from the airport area and renamed the street after founder Glen Bell.
In 2020, Taco Bell said it had agreed to an 11-year lease extension to remain at the facility at least until 2030. That same year, Yum Brands acquired the Habit, previously located on Red Hill Avenue in Irvine, for approximately $375 million.
The burger chain then moved into Taco Bell’s corporate office.
The move is part of larger organizational changes announced recently by parent company Yum Brands. In 2025, the Kentucky-based company relocated KFC from its longtime home base in Louisville last year to Texas and completed the $1.5 billion sale of Pizza Hut to LongRange Capital last week.
Executive Editor Nancy Luna, Community Editor Mark Mueller and Real Estate Reporter Joseph Pimentel contributed to this report.