In-N-Out Leases Office Building in San Dimas

In-N-Out Burger is taking another bite in Los Angeles County after announcing plans to relocate its headquarters from Orange County.

The burger chain leased a 98,000-square-foot office building at 924 Overland Avenue in San Dimas, CoStar reported. The deal for the Nautilus Global Investment-owned building marks the third-largest office lease in L.A. County in the past year.

In-N-Out did not confirm whether the San Dimas property would be its new headquarters. The company announced last February that it planned to move its corporate operations to the San Gabriel Valley, focusing on the Baldwin Park area as it prepared to decamp from its present home in Irvine. San Dimas is about 10 miles east of Baldwin Park, where In-N-Out opened its first drive-thru in 1948.

In‑N‑Out currently owns and operates a 100,000‑square‑foot warehouse at 13502 Virginia Avenue in Baldwin Park. It also owns the 182,647‑square‑foot office tower at 4199 Campus Drive in Irvine; the company occupies roughly 18,000 square feet there, per CoStar. The long‑term plans for those properties and their roles in the planned move back to Baldwin Park remain to be seen.

The fast food giant is simultaneously in expansion mode in the eastern United States. The company plans to open a 100,000-square-foot office near Nashville, Tennessee this year to support additional growth across the Southeast. Once that outpost is open, most of In-N-Out’s corporate employees will be split between Baldwin Park and Franklin, Tennessee, according to CoStar.

In-N-Out president Lynsi Snyder, the billionaire heiress to the West Coast burger chain, drew scrutiny last year when she seemingly signaled that In-N-Out would abandon California’s business environment altogether for Tennessee. The company later clarified that its corporate headquarters would remain in California and that the Tennessee office would function as a regional hub to support expansion in the Southeast.

The eastern San Gabriel Valley remains one of Los Angeles County’s stronger office submarkets. As of the first quarter, vacancy sat at 5.9 percent, according to CoStar. In-N-Out currently operates approximately 400 restaurants in nine states with no franchise locations.

— Chris Malone Méndez