Auto-parts distributor leases 522,000 square feet in Chino as West IE stays tight

The tenant, an auto-parts distribution company that DAUM Commercial and Lara CRE declined to name, took the full building at 16380 Euclid Avenue, a Class A facility built in 2014 with 32-foot clear height in the Chino South industrial center. The company already runs a nearby 200,000-square-foot operation; this is an expansion, not a relocation. DAUM and Lara CRE represented the tenant; Colliers represented the landlord, Invesco.

The lease reads against a softening regional backdrop. CBRE puts vacancy in the IE Core at 7.8% for Q1 2026, up 70 basis points in a quarter, driven by move-outs in the 500,000-square-foot-and-above range. Colliers pegs region-wide vacancy at 8.1%. A half-million-foot expansion signing into that market is the kind of deal that doesn't fit the "IE is cooling" headline.

The gap is submarket. The empty big blocks and negative absorption concentrate in the East — Moreno Valley/Perris, San Bernardino, the High Desert — while the West, closer to the ports and the Ontario airport, runs tighter. A year ago Colliers had West IE vacancy at 4.4% against 8.5% in the East and called the split diverging market conditions. DAUM's own Q1 market report puts direct vacancy in Chino at 3.24%. For an operator, the read is that the region's blended vacancy number understates how hard it is to land modern big-box space in the West — and this deal is the evidence.