Big leases: Amazon and Anduril

Amazon and Anduril have committed to two of the biggest recent industrial leases in the Los Angeles basin, taking large blocks of space in Long Beach and Santa Ana. (theregistrysocal.com) Amazon leased the full 504,810-square-foot Building One at Goodman Commerce Center Long Beach, a new facility at 2401 E. Wardlow Road next to Long Beach Airport. The project rises on part of the former Boeing C-17 site that Goodman bought in 2019. (theregistrysocal.com, lbwatchdog.com) Anduril signed for about 162,000 square feet at Harbor Logistics Center, 3100 S. Harbor Blvd. in Santa Ana, leasing the entire newly built warehouse. Orange County Business Journal reported the deal on August 29, 2025, and identified Anduril as the tenant. (ocbj.com, ocbj.com) Both deals center on infill sites, the kind of scarce industrial properties built inside the dense Los Angeles-Orange County core rather than on cheaper land farther east. Goodman’s Long Beach building sits roughly half a mile from Interstate 405 and near the 605 and 710 freeways, while Harbor Logistics Center is close to Anduril’s Costa Mesa base. (commercialsearch.com, ocbj.com) The Long Beach project was designed for aerospace, manufacturing, e-commerce and warehousing users before Amazon signed, with 61 dock doors, 40-foot clear heights and room for flex office buildout. Goodman said it started the building without a named tenant after demolishing an older Boeing-era structure. (commercialsearch.com, lbwatchdog.com) Anduril’s Santa Ana lease fits a broader Southern California expansion by the defense contractor. By January 2026, Orange County Business Journal reported that Anduril leased close to 1.5 million square feet in Orange County and had nearly doubled its local footprint in a little more than a year. (ocbj.com) That growth is spilling into Long Beach too. In January 2026, Anduril said it would build a roughly 1.2 million-square-foot campus near Long Beach Airport, with 750,000 square feet of office space, 435,000 square feet of industrial research-and-development space and 5,500 planned jobs. (ocbj.com, costar.com) Long Beach’s former Boeing land has already been drawing aerospace and logistics tenants. Goodman previously leased the 1.1 million-square-foot C-17 hangar on the same property to Relativity Space, while the new Amazon deal fills the latest large building on the campus. (lbwatchdog.com, commercialsearch.com) The pattern is straightforward: when a site offers runway access, freeway links, modern loading and proximity to existing operations, big occupiers are still signing for large footprints in the basin. Amazon took the rebuilt Boeing ground in Long Beach, and Anduril added another full-building commitment in Santa Ana. (theregistrysocal.com, ocbj.com)