What it Takes to Achieve an Outstanding Building

Muller: “Our entire team, along with our service providers, cares about what we do, and we’re honored that our buildings have been recognized for this.”

IRVINE, CA—The Muller Co.’s two recent TOBY awards were won by not only meeting the basic tenets of property management, but also by going above and beyond every day, principal Jon Muller tells GlobeSt.com. Two Southern California medical-office buildings owned and managed by the firm—the Taj Mahal Medical Center at 23521 Paseo de Valencia in Laguna Hills and Westwood Medical Plaza at 10921 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles—received the 2016 The Outstanding Building of the Year Award in medical-office buildings by the Building Owners and Managers Association in each of their respective markets. The award is considered the most prestigious and comprehensive program of its kind in the commercial real estate industry, recognizing quality in buildings and rewarding excellence in building design, operation and management.

The Taj Mahal Medical Center is a three-story, 89,000-square-foot landmark mid-century modern building that was transformed into a class-A, state-of-the-art medical-office building. Situated on a raised podium across the street from Saddleback Memorial Hospital, the neoclassical contemporary architecture is reminiscent of similar landmark buildings like the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Lincoln Center in New York and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center in Los Angeles. The building is also walking distance to the Laguna Hills Mall, which is currently under renovation and has been renamed Five Lagunas, and Laguna Woods Village (formerly known as Leisure World). Suzi Mier is the property manager for the building, and Mark Zuvich and Eric Tse of Irvine-based Zuvich Commercial Advisors Inc. are the leasing agents.