Developer Completes $16M Vantis Project

The Office Building Group of Irvine-based Snyder Langston was the general contractor for the project, which was developed on a three-acre site that is part of a 40-acre parcel planned for future projects as well. The first Vantis project as a five-story office building and 726 at-grade parking spaces, with insurance company Safeco Corp. of Seattle as the anchor tenant.

The Aliso Viejo facility serves as a center of regional operations for the insurance firm, which occupies all but 55,000 sf of the 177,000-sf building. Developer Shea Properties is marketing the remaining 55,000 sf in spaces as small as 1,500 sf.

Designed by McLarand, Vasquez, Emsiek & Partners of Irvine, the 177,000-sf building features structural steel-frame construction finished in pre-cast concrete and glass. It features landscaping designed by SWA of Laguna Beach.

Bradley Pontius, development manager for Shea Properties, says the next project to be developed at the 40-acre Vantis site will be a build-to-suit, but further details of that project have yet to be decided.

Shea Properties, one of the JF Shea Co. Inc. family of companies is a land acquisition, development, construction and management firm whose projects include business parks, shopping centers and apartments. Shea Properties owns and operates more than 3.2 million sf of commercial real estate and 5,800 apartment units in California and Colorado. Approximately 10 million sf of commercial space and 7,000 units are in the development pipeline in Southern California, Northern California and Colorado.

Snyder Langston is a real estate and construction services company that provides pre-construction and construction services as well as feasibility analysis, land purchase and entitlements, government negotiations, design management, development management and financing services.