Refrigerated and cold storage for lease in Southern California.
Refrigerated warehouse, cold storage, and food-grade space across Orange County, Los Angeles, and the Inland Empire — for food manufacturers, pharma distributors, and 3PLs who need the building to actually match the operation.
Cold storage is not warehouse space with a chiller bolted on.
Temperature zones, dock loading configuration, power redundancy, and refrigeration compliance decide whether a facility performs — or whether the operation moves within a year. Tenants who scoped these assets like generic industrial usually learn the difference the hard way.
The buildings that work were built or converted deliberately: right compressor sizing for the intended zone, right dock ratios for the throughput, backup power that can hold the product through a Southern California grid event, and refrigeration systems with an OEM relationship that services the equipment within hours, not days.
Every temperature zone, every dock configuration.
Refrigerated (35–55°F)
Fresh food, produce staging, floral, pharma ambient-adjacent.
Cooler (28–38°F)
Meat, dairy, high-throughput food distribution.
Freezer (-10°F to 0°F)
Frozen distribution, ice cream, specialty food manufacturing.
Food-grade / USDA-approved
Facilities operating under USDA inspection with the paperwork trail and dock configuration to prove it.
Blast freezer
Specialty processing for meat, seafood, and prepared foods.
The corridors that actually have inventory.
Orange County (Anaheim, Santa Ana), Vernon, Commerce, City of Industry, and the western Inland Empire. Each submarket has its own tenant mix, utility rate structure, and inbound freight patterns — the right building depends on what you are moving and where it comes from.
See what is on the market right now.
Availability changes weekly. Filter the availabilities index to the refrigerated set for sqft, temperature zone, dock count, and brochure PDFs.
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For tenants scoping a build-to-suit or expansion.
Guardian Life Insurance cold-storage portfolio.
81,664 SF refrigerated distribution facility in Commerce (ammonia central, 24/7 monitored, 39 docks) and 60,000 SF freezer facility in the City of Industry (20°F). Managed a decade of asset performance through a successful institutional exit.
LNN Vernon.
65,000 SF USDA-inspected food manufacturing and frozen distribution across three Soto Street parcels — a working example of what USDA-grade facility inventory actually looks like on the ground.