New industrial park sells out

Jenny Marder

A new $8.1-million industrial park, which caters to local businesses

and boasts a cutting-edge architectural design, brought in the new

year by closing escrow on its final building.

The 59,000-square-foot Seacliff Business Center marks the first

industrial development of its kind in Huntington Beach’s upscale

Seacliff area.

The center, at Goldenwest Street and Garfield Avenue, is now home

to seven distribution and light manufacturing companies.

The companies include M.L. Burris Corp., a distributor of

high-performance go-cart racing parts; Leda Corp., an aerospace and

defense supplier; flooring contractor Gaetano Hardwood Floors;

Decorean Design, an import-export company; Jen-E Distributing, a

wholesale distributor of street rod and high-performance auto

accessories; and the Voit Commercial Brokerage firm.

“The challenge was to build a high-end industrial park catering to

local businesses, which we got primarily,” said Mike Bouma, a broker

from Voit Commercial Brokerage. “Many of the people expanded from

Huntington Beach.”

Michael Burris, who owns and runs M.L. Burris Corp. with his sons

Derek and Kurt, relocated from Los Alamitos to Huntington Beach.

Burris’ company designs and manufactures go-cart products, which

are sold throughout the country.

Cart-racing tracks are scarce in California -- the closest is in

Fontana -- but the sport is thriving in other parts of the country,

Burris said.

But for Burris, who was taken by the seaside location of the new

business center, moving to Surf City was a no-brainer.

“Location, location, location,” Burris said. “It’s hard to find an

industrial building just a mile from the beach. It’s new, it’s what

we wanted, and the amenities are exactly what we were looking for.”

The buildings are from 5,452 to 10,980 square feet in size. They

are architecturally modern, with wave-shaped roofs, designed to fit

in with the surrounding neighborhood.

“It was a successful design, considering we pre-sold all seven

buildings,” Bouma said.

Bouma stopped short of calling it funky.

“The subtle wave design is intended to be consistent with

neighboring shopping centers and to be consistent with Huntington

Beach,” Bouma said. “We wanted something very aesthetically

appealing, not just your standard box buildings.”