Editor’s note: This report is the latest edition of “Rising Up,” a monthly series focusing on new development projects in Long Beach.
A warehousing and distribution facility, a beauty supply company and a rocket factory have taken over a former U.S. Postal Service site in Long Beach.
Pacific Industrial wrapped up construction late last year on three single-story, 45-foot-tall light industrial buildings at 2300 Redondo Ave., between Willow and Stearns streets. Since then, three new companies — Traffic Tech, Hydrafacial and Relativity — have moved in.
Traffic Tech, which offers shipping and freight services, installed a warehouse. Hydrafacial — a skin care company that sells spa therapy technology to businesses and a line of face creams to consumers — moved its corporate office and a manufacturing facility to the site. And Relativity, a rocket and satellite manufacturer, stationed its headquarters there.
Relativity announced earlier this year that it will produce Terran 1, the world’s first 3D printed rocket, at the Long Beach facility.
“The space economy continues its growth in Long Beach with the addition of Relativity,” Mayor Robert Garcia said in a statement at the time. “3D printing is groundbreaking for new jobs and new technologies in the space sector.”
Together, the three businesses now occupy a 19-acre site that used to hold a processing facility for the U.S. Postal Service. The mail center was concentrated in a 326,000-square-foot single-story building; that structure has since been demolished to make way for the Pacific Industrial project, which the firm has dubbed Pacific Edge.
Charley O’Desky, the development manager for Pacific Industrial, said his company chose the site because of its convenient access to three major freeways and the Long Beach Airport, as well as the Los Angeles International Airport and John Wayne Airport.
It’s also “less than 10 miles from the two busiest container ports in North America,” O’Desky noted.
But O’Desky also said his firm hoped to contribute to the area with the new buildings. He pointed to the “modern, state-of-the-art design” that includes “forward-looking features that are rare in industrial projects — including EV charging stations, solar ready roofs and above standard skylight counts.”
It seems the project Pacific Industrial built may be even more forward-looking than the team first imagined. If Relativity accomplishes its goals, the site may be the birthplace of a new era in rocket and satellite manufacturing.
“I’m confident our autonomous factory,” the company’s CEO and co-founder, Tim Ellis, said of the site, “will become the future technology stack for the entire aerospace industry.”
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