Where to Find Hard Tech Buildings in Los Angeles

Posted on February 25, 2025March 25, 2025 by Jim Klein

Despite higher than normal industrial vacancies, Hard Tech companies are finding it difficult to locate adequate industrial space. Many Hard Tech companies require substantial electical power. They want a free-standing building for U.S. Government clearance, more office space than is typical, a large parking area, and a location to attract engineers. Many Hard Tech companies prefer El Segundo and neighboring beach communities because of its history of aerospace and defense manufacturing. But they will consider other locatons along the 405 corridor from LAX to Irvine, including Torrance, Long Beach and other locations in Orange County. Some Hard Tech Companies will make the difficult decision to split their manufacturing from engineering to find the right facility in the location they want. Other parts of Los Angeles that served as machining centers in the past are located in Gardena/Carson, Commerce/Vernon and parts of the San Fernando Valley. Following are a couple of graphs describing market conditions:

Offerings are scarce in the El Segundo/Beach Cities area. When Hard Tech companies grow, they often look to Torrance, Hawthorne, Gardena, Carson or Long Beach. These cities are close to experienced engineers and they house good production facilities.

Power is a main criteria for many Hard Tech Companies. If you need heavy power, 2000 AMPs or greater, there are only a few buildings with the necessary capacity in each square foot range.

Rents hover between $1.50 to $2.25 Gross per square foot per month depending on location and amenities.

If you are seeking a new building or have questions about Los Angeles industrial real estate, please contact us today.

Thank you,

Jim Klein, SIOR – Jimklein@kleincom.com

Quan Wu – Quan@kleincom.com

Industrial Building Sales

Posted on November 19, 2024December 3, 2024 by Jim Klein

The Los Angeles industrial real estate market is financialized. That means pricing reflects accepted investment principles. Investment buyers, flush with private capital, are searching for smaller and older buildings than what you would normally expect from fund level buyers. Assets owned by individuals, corporations, families, and partnerships are being sold to large investment groups, funds, and REITS. It started with “Class A” buildings but escalated for almost all industrial buildings with low interest rates after the Great Financial Crisis. Activity surged during Covid, levelled off during the recent period of higher interest rates, and is regaining strength with more capital allocations hitting almost all industrial properties that generate long-lasting income.

In our experience, some building owners prefer comprehensive marketing and others want discretion. We developed our resources to do both:

Conventional Listing	Private Listing
Exclusive	Non-Exclusive
Market Rate Broker Fee	Lower Broker Fee
Generally, No Dual Agency	Dual-Agency
Common with Owner/Users	Common with Investor/Developer Sales
No Immediate Hurry	Deadline
Public – Wider Distribution	Confidential and Discrete
Dedicated effort and resources	Flexibility – Can sell yourself
Posted online and through Industrial Multiple	Distributed to professional buyers

14826 S Avalon Blvd, Gardena, CA

Posted on February 7, 2023September 25, 2024 by Jim Klein

14826 S Avalon Blvd, Gardena, CA 90248 – 2.05 Acres – 89,298 Square Feet

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Leasing Industrial Property in Los Angeles County Under the New Green Zone Ordinance

Posted on September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 by Jim Klein

Leasing Industrial Property in Los Angeles County Under the New Green Zone Ordinance

Green Zones

Green Zones are an entirely different way to look at zoning. It is an outgrowth of the Environmental Justice Movement that had its local origins addressing diesel exhaust at the Port Complex in San Pedro Bay. Properties are analyzed and graded based on their contribution to health disparities using the Environmental Justice Screening Method (EJSM). The EJSM is a new tool and strategy that is designed to correct unhealthy conditions by establishing new mitigation mechanisms. The County will use the EJSM for ongoing monitoring and annual reporting to the parcel level.

Depending on the EJSM score, Regional Planning offers four (4) different routes to approval. The simplest is Site Plan Review (SPR) and it is approved administratively in what we use to call, “over the counter”. The other three routes are discretionary and require formal application and Public Hearing at different levels of planning authority. Generally, the greater the health impact, the longer the approvals.
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Blockchain: Should You Post Your Industrial Property?

Posted on June 12, 2022June 27, 2022 by Jim Klein

Putting a property on the blockchain allows people to transact if they have the link. When we post a property, the blockchain generates a cryptographic key which allows the possessor access to the property. We give that key, in the form of a link or a QR code. There are associated rights with the key that are compared to an NFT or a token, but our purpose for using the blockchain is its ordering system. The key is only sent to Selected Trusted Parties that are registered or known. Nothing is posted online or in the Multiple Listing Services because blockchain is used for privacy.
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Blockchain Demo

Posted on May 8, 2022July 5, 2022 by Jim Klein

Transcript

Welcome to Gardena, CA!

The center of industrial real estate for Los Angeles.

I’m Jim Klein and today I will show you, how to use the blockchain to send and receive files, decentrally among trusted parties.

Let’s go inside.

Here’s how it works. We input the address of the property on the top line. In this case, it’s 19475 Gramercy Pl, Torrance, CA. It’s a 47,000 ft manufacturing, industrial storage building. Contact ID is where we can put the user’s email or a customer number that we generate. We include the file and we press go.

After pressing go the program creates a QR code and a link that I can send to the customer. Only parties who have the link or code can open the file. It records on the blockchain to serve as proof.

With the link you can either click on it or put it in your browser, and the file is transmitted to the party you want to send.

My first use case is offmarket industrial real estate. Meta tags can be used to search the blockchain by keyword.

I’m asking for your help to expand the project and make more deals together. Thank you to the innovation committee and you watching.

Are You Decentralized?

Posted on January 1, 2022January 3, 2022 by Jim Klein

More real estate opportunities are popping up on decentralized platforms than ever before. Take for instance Los Angeles. There are more industrial buildings sold “off-market” than on. Industrial real estate has always had a decentralized component. Brokers find a good lead. They shop it first to their best clients off-market, decentralized. And if unsuccessful, put it on the market, on a central, MLS-type server for all to search and see. The difference today is that blockchain and cryptography is an electronic evolution that will give customers new ways to profit from their real estate.

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