Manufacturer Leases 231,000 SF From Stirling

VICTORVILLE, CA-Plastipak Packaging Inc., a manufacturer of plastic packaging containers for many of the world’s largest consumer products companies, has signed a lease for 231,185 square feet of industrial space at the Southern California Logistics Centre, a project of Foothill Ranch-based Stirling Capital Investments. Plymouth, MI-based Plastipak will manufacture and distribute plastic bottles at its new SCLC facility.

Plastipak’s new operations will be located at 13415 Sabre within the newly constructed Distribution Centre 13A, a class A industrial building. The facility is one of two at Southern California Logistics Centre that have received LEED gold certification.

Brian Parno, vice president of Stirling Capital Investments, the master developer of SCLC, notes that the Plastipak building is part of phase one development of SCLC totaling more than 6.5 million square feet, two million square feet of which has been constructed to date. Other major corporations are already located at Southern California Logistics Centre and in the City of Victorville include Newell Rubbermaid, Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc., General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, FedEx, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., M&M/Mars, ConAgra Foods and Nutro Products Inc.

Stirling Capital Investments is a joint venture between Stirling and Denver-based DCT Industrial Trust Inc. Southern California Logistics Centre is part of 8,500 acres called Global Access Victorville at the former George Air Force Base. In addition to the SCLC, Global Access Victorville comprises the 2,500-acre Southern California Logistics Airport and the 3,500-acre Southern California Rail Complex, a planned 3,500-acre intermodal and multimodal complex entailing rail-served facilities.