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Rockefeller Group Development Corporation formed a joint venture early in 2005 to established a 500-acre Foreign Trade Zone 60 miles north of Los Angeles. The master-planned site is able to accommodate more than nine million square feet of new industrial development.

The joint venture is with Tejon Ranch Company, a publicly traded real estate development and agribusiness company that owns a 270,000-acre tract (422 square miles) at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. The tract includes the partially developed 1,450-acre Tejon Industrial Complex, where IKEA has its 1.7-million-square-foot Western North American Distribution Center to serve California and the western United States and Canada

The Tejon Industrial Complex adjoins Interstate 5, California’s prime north-south route, at the junction with State Highway 99. The complex provides direct access to the ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach and Oakland, making it a strategic location for all FTZ users looking to operate on the west coast.

Foreign Trade Zone designation for the site is expected in 2007.

Immediately north of the designated FTZ site, the Tejon Industrial Complex has a motel, an expansive truck stop, and a dozen restaurants and eating establishments.