The John Wayne Airport Area Office Market
Our focus at OCAirportOfficeSpace.com is Class A and Class B office space near the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, apart from the more than 20 million square feet of office which stretches down to the Y where the 405 Freeway intersects with the 5 Freeway in Irvine.
Orange County consists of 3 million people in 34 cities over 800 square miles. The sun shines 275 days out of the year, and John Wayne International (SNA) airport ranks at the top in satisfaction. OC was once designated as the 7th largest economy in the United States. The area has the highest concentration of science-technology- engineering-mathematics (STEM) workers in Southern California. 100,000 people work in the John Wayne Airport area.
The area’s economic vitality is reflected by its finance, energy, professional services, life sciences and technology tenants. A few major occupiers are Pacific Mutual, PIMCO, Chipotle, Clean Energy Fuels, APL, Blizzard Entertainment, Broadcom, Western Digital, Ingram Micro, Jazz Semiconductor, Canyon Create, UPS and Skyworks Solutions. This underscores the airport area’s appeal to legacy sector office tenants to emerging fields like media & streaming.
Remarkably Donald Bren’s Irvine Company controls 18 million square feet of office space. Other institutional office building landlords in the area are Blackstone, Hines, Greenlaw, Olen, LBA, Segerstrom, TA Realty and Deutsche Bank.
In Q2 2024 there are a myriad of direct and subleases available. Finding the right space and the best deal is difficult and time-consuming. Using a tenant broker with specific local knowledge and relationships is invaluable to help you beat the odds.
