LA North Studios has leased 70,550 square feet of industrial space in Valencia.
The building at 28525 Witherspoon Parkway, is built on roughly 5.4 acres and features 28-foot minimum ceiling heights and a large fenced rear yard area.
The facility, featuring an expansive glass and concrete façade, was previously the corporate headquarters for MechanixWear Gloves. The property, owned by Desert Orchard LLC and Golden Westminster Investments, is part of the master-planned Valencia Commerce Center and it will be repurposed as film and television soundstages, including space for production support and offices.
This latest lease transaction will see LA North Studios — the independent full-service film and television studio founded in 2019 by Anthony Syracuse and John Prabhu — reach a total footprint in the region of more than 460,000 square feet with five production campuses across Los Angeles County. In 2020, LA North signed a five-year lease to take more than 113,000 square feet at The Center at Needham Ranch in Santa Clarita.
“LA North Studios is thrilled to be expanding and moving forward with our fifth location,” John Prabhu, co-founder of LA North Studios, said in a statement. “This will be the third new long-term lease we have negotiated in the past 12 months. This is a dramatic and modern building with features that make it ideal for us to develop and use as a high-end studio. When this facility comes online in the next couple of months, we’ll have just under a half million square feet of production space in the region and 15 soundstages.”
CBRE’s Craig Peters and Sam Glendon worked on the transaction.
“This building has always been one of my favorites in the market as its both architecturally impressive and functionally state-of-the-art,” said Glendon. “It has been a flagship property for the entire Santa Clarita Valley since it was built, and I am thrilled to have played a role in its next chapter as a sound stage property—a fitting repositioning given the tremendous recent growth of the film and television business in this area.”