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AMP&RSAND Stays in Demand as Firms Bring Employees Back

AMP&RSAND Stays in Demand as Firms Bring Employees Back

San Diego’s creative office redevelopment AMP&RSAND recently completed leases totaling approximately 23,000 square feet with two new tenants: Hoyle Cohen, a financial services firm, and The Honest Kitchen, a healthy pet food company. Owned and developed by Casey Brown Company, AMPR&SAND is an adaptive reuse of the former San Diego Union-Tribune Publishing Company campus including an overhaul of a five-story office tower and a three-story printing press facility, both constructed in 1973. 

The property was named for the ampersand character, the last figure in the typesetter’s alphabet, and the last character printed when the Union-Tribune shut its presses in 2016.

Cushman & Wakefield’s Derek Hulse, Brett Ward and Morgan Reno represented the landlord in the transactions. Cushman & Wakefield’s asset services team also provides property management.

“It is with great enthusiasm we welcome these two great tenants to AMP&RSAND, an amenity-rich property recognized as an iconic landmark pressed in San Diego’s history that has been reimagined for the demands of the modern workforce,” said Hulse. “COVID-19 has presented many challenges, particularly in the office sector, but these new leases reflect the present pulse as more companies evaluate their needs to bring employees back to the office. High-quality amenitized workplace environments such as AMP&RSAND have also become increasingly desirable in the effort by companies to bring employees back to the workplace.”

Located at 350 Camino De La Reina, AMP&RSAND comprises two class-A buildings totaling 343,000 square feet on approximately 13 acres.

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About Lisa Brown

Lisa Brown has decades of experience in corporate communications and marketing management with organizations including Coldwell Banker Residential, Grubb & Ellis, Marcus & Millichap, NAIOP, SIOR and ALM. In those positions, she worked in conjunction with chief executive officers and chief marketing officers to create corporate messaging, cohesive branding standards, strategic marketing plans and thought pieces. Brown is a frequent speaker at industry events and an editing adjunct professor for an online course. She has a master’s degree in mass communications from San Jose State University.

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