Nonprofit Sets Year-to-Date Los Angeles Office Lease Record

As the third quarter comes to a close, a social services organization has notched the largest office lease of the year so far in Los Angeles County.

The North Los Angeles County Regional Center has renewed and expanded its headquarters lease at 9200 Oakdale Avenue in Chatsworth, growing its footprint at the building from 112,115 square feet to approximately 166,870 square feet, L.A. Business First reported.

The nearly 167,000-square-foot deal is the largest office lease by square footage year-to-date in Los Angeles County according to Newmark, which brokered the transaction. It is also the fourth-largest office deal in L.A. County in the past two years, CoStar reported.

Omninet Capital owns the 35-year-old office building, which spans 258,005 square feet in total, Commercial Property Executive reported. With the new lease, the North Los Angeles County Regional Center will occupy nearly 65 percent of the property, up from 43 percent.

NLACRC originally committed to the building in 2016 in a lease that was slated to expire next year. How many floors NLACRC will occupy at the 10-story building has not been disclosed, but floor plates in the building range in size between 20,530 and 27,182 square feet, according to Commercial Property Executive.

The nonprofit is the largest of California’s 21 regional centers overseen by the state’s Department of Developmental Services. Those centers partner with community-based organizations and service providers to help individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.

Last year, the San Gabriel/Pomona Regional Center set a lease record of its own, inking a deal for 53,400 square feet at The Campus at San Gabriel Valley in Irwindale that was one of the largest new office leases signed in the San Gabriel Valley in 2025.

Office vacancy in Greater Los Angeles reached 23.4 percent at the end of last year, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s fourth-quarter report. Total leasing volume last year fell 7.5 percent year-over-year to 9.6 million square feet, marking the first time since 2020 that activity failed to surpass the 10-million-square-foot threshold. Renewal activity remained a primary driver for the market, increasing by 13.7 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter. By contrast, direct leasing activity saw a sharp decline of 35.6 percent during the same period.

— Chris Malone Méndez