Property Types  Industrial
Tenant Signs on for 269,000 SF of Inland Empire Industrial Space
Jul 30, 2009

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Master Development Corp., the managing member of Ontario Two L.L.C., has inked a tenant to a six-year lease valued at $3.5 million in Phase II of its Thoroughbred Business Park, a 2 million-square-foot industrial park located in Ontario, Calif.

The lease is for approximately 269,000 square feet of industrial space in a building formerly occupied by The Sharper Image. An undisclosed tenant will be using this building as its West Coast distribution facility.

Thoroughbred Business Park is a joint venture between MDC, landowner The Johnson Trust and a large Midwestern pension trust. Built in three phases between 1996 and 2000, the property is one of the largest master-planned industrial parks in California’s Inland Empire.

Michael Chavez and Vince Anthony of Lee & Associates’ Ontario office represented the landlord in the transaction. Vince Manchee and Phil Lombardo of Cushman & Wakefield Inc. represented the tenant.

 
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