Westcore Industrial Properties, a San Diego-based company formedby Marc Brutten, has bought five separate business parks from SanDiego Investment Property Group. The properties, in the Miramar,Sorrento Valley and Sorrento Mesa areas, have a combined size of537,345 sf.

Brutten had formed Westcore to expand the Hawaii-based ShidlerGroup's industrial property business in the western United States.The Shidler Group was founded by real estate titan Jay Shidler, whoalso cofounded First Industrial Realty Trust Inc., a REIT that isone of the nation's largest holders of industrial property.

The five projects, built between 1978 and 1993, are: the202,317-sf Miramar West Business Park at 8320-8395 Camino Santa Fe;117,831-sf Miramar Trade Centre at 7328-7340 Trade St.; Mira MesaBusiness Centre, 99,065 sf, at 10307-10309 Pacific Center Court;57,536-sf Torrey Sorrento II on Roselle Street, and 60,596-sfScripps Miramar Business Park at 9672-9792 Via Excelencia.