California + Los Angeles + Industrial | July 11, 2023

Trader Joe’s Acquires Palmdale Site for 1M-SF Distribution Center

GFI Realty Services closed on the $15.750-million sale of a 117.38-acre development site located in Palmdale. Trader Joe’s is constructing a 1.03-million-square-foot distribution facility on the parcel with completion anticipated by the end of 2024. It will be the grocer’s first distribution center in Los Angeles County and its largest in California.

The GFI Realty Institutional Advisory team of managing director Joshua Peck and group director Susan Annis co-brokered the transaction between Trader Joe’s and the seller.

According to the City of Palmdale, the facility will consist of three buildings. These include an 827,000-square-foot Hub building, a 211,000-square-foot freezer building and a 6,000-square-foot accessory building, supporting Trader Joe’s stores throughout Southern California.

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