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LOS ANGELES-The Bristol Group Inc. of San Francisco plans tosell a Southern California industrial portfolio of 4.6 million sfof class A space and has named Eastdil Secured to market theproperties. Eastdil expects to distribute offering materials inApril.Most of the properties are in the South Bay, Central LosAngeles and Mid-Counties submarkets of Los Angeles, where thedirect vacancy and overall availability of industrial space haveremained in the low single-digit range for several years. Theremaining buildings are in Orange County, also a tight industrialmarket.Six of the properties total more than 3.7 million sf andconsist of multiple-building industrial parks. The other six,comprising 800,000 sf, consist of stand-alone structures suited forsingle-tenant users.All of the properties were value-addedacquisitions for the Bristol Group, which repositioned all of themeither through renovations or leasing to new tenants. EastdilSecured describes the locations as infill sites near the ports ofLos Angeles and Long Beach.The Los Angeles area properties are partof a nationwide Bristol Group portfolio that totals more than 13million sf. In addition to the industrial portfolio it owns, otherSouthern California assets owned by the Bristol Group include theLos Angeles Center Studio in Downtown Los Angeles, the 438,000-sfRolling Hills Plaza community retail center at Pacific CoastHighway and Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance and a 615,000-sf officebuilding at 1055 W. Seventh St. in Downtown Los Angeles.The officebuilding signed one of the largest downtown office leases of 2005when the Los Angeles Unified School District agreed to lease morethan 117,000 sf at the building.