2049-2053 E 38th St 38,271 SF Industrial Building Vernon, CA 90058 $6,800,000 ($177.68/SF)

RJ Realty is pleased to present for sale and for lease opportunity — 2049–2053 E. 38th Street, a ±38,271 SF multi-purpose industrial facility situated in prime West Vernon between Alameda Street and Santa Fe Avenue. The property offers a rare combination of heavy power, renovated office, flexible mezzanine, and Vernon utility economics in a single owner-user or investment-grade package.
The building features ±4,760 SF of fully renovated office space (2017), an approximately 7,500 SF mezzanine suitable for showroom, QC lab, pick-and-pack, or executive office use, and an open warehouse floor with 16'–26' clear height throughout. A 600-amp electrical panel supports production-level power demands. The property sits on ±34,063 SF of land with dual street frontage on E. 38th Street and Ross Street, two grade-level drive-in doors, approximately 12 surface parking spaces, and a wrought-iron fenced perimeter yard.
The facility is ideally suited for light manufacturing and assembly, fashion apparel and garment production, food processing and co-packing, cosmetics and personal care OEM operations, e-commerce fulfillment and last-mile distribution, and creative studio or production users seeking a DTLA-adjacent location with genuine industrial infrastructure.
Located in the City of Vernon — founded in 1905 as California's exclusively industrial city — the property benefits from municipal utility rates running approximately 30% below SoCal Edison and LADWP rates. For energy-intensive operators, this translates to meaningful direct operating savings month over month. Combined with a :04 emergency response time, streamlined permitting, and one of the lowest business operating cost structures in LA County, Vernon represents a structural advantage that compounds over the life of a lease or ownership hold.
The property is positioned 1.0 mile from the I-10, 1.4 miles from the I-5, 2.8 miles from the DTLA Arts District, and approximately 22 miles from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — providing immediate freeway connectivity and same-day delivery reach across Greater Los Angeles.