BKM Capital Partners Acquires LA Light Industrial Campus

June 23, 2026

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The 11-building asset has a diverse tenant mix.

BKM Capital Partners has purchased Carson Industrial Center in Carson, Calif., paying $95 million for the 429,000-square-foot asset. The seller was not disclosed, but L.A. Business First reported that party as German firm DWS Group.

The transaction came as part of BKM’s Industrial Value Fund III.

The more than 20-acre, 11-building Carson Industrial Center offers 20 units with an average unit size of 21,000 square feet. It also features a total of 79 dock-high and grade-level doors, 14- to 21-foot clear ceiling heights and parking for 651 vehicles.

The campus is 73 percent occupied by a mix of manufacturing tenants, alongside firms specializing in freight logistics, signal and connectivity solutions, luxury handbag distribution and novelty toy importers.

Each of its 11 single-story buildings sits on its own tax parcel, which provides BKM with the ability to sell individual buildings to owner-users over time if market conditions support that, BKM CEO and Chief Investment Officer Brian Malliet said in a prepared statement.

BKM has allocated more than $6 million to repositioning the portfolio, according to Brett Turner, BKM’s senior managing director of acquisitions & dispositions, which will include reconfiguring and upgrading vacant units, addressing deferred exterior maintenance and introducing new signage and landscaping across the campus.

Turner, with support from Michael Grossner, senior director of acquisitions & dispositions, led a BKM team negotiating the transaction. Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller.

Carson Industrial Center is at the southeast corner of Del Amo Boulevard and Tillman Avenue, within three miles of interstates 405, 710, 91 and 110, and roughly 20 minutes from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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The campus traded at a significant discount to replacement cost, according to BKM, which reflected the repricing that has moved through Southern California industrial over the past two years.

“The repricing we’ve seen in Southern California industrial is really the market coming off an extraordinary peak,” Mason Waite, BKM’s senior managing director of asset management, told Commercial Property Executive. “For several years, pricing was supported by record-low vacancy, aggressive rent growth, cheap debt and a level of logistics demand that was never going to move in a straight line forever.”

Earlier in June, BKM—this time with joint venture partner Kayne Anderson Real Estate—acquired an 8.5 million-square-foot, 51-property portfolio across four states. Link Logistics sold the properties for $1.8 billion.