Epson America, Inc. wants to build a new headquarters building adjacent to the Kilroy Airport Center where it is currently headquartered, according to an item slated for tomorrow’s (April 11) Long Beach City Council meeting.

 

The company recently released a request for proposals for “the construction of a new building with the goal of providing a modern and creative office environment to enable them to attract and retain the most competitive workforce,” the staff report states. “Epson does not believe that these goals can be accomplished without a new building.”

 

Epson currently employs approximately 450 people at its existing headquarters. Creating a new, larger facility would enable the company to expand its workforce to 600 employees, according to the city document. Plans would include “creative office space, open floor plans, balcony decks, a showroom, restaurant(s) and coffee shop(s).”

 

Epson’s current lease at Kilroy expires in 2019.

 

The council is slated to vote on a request by Urbana Development LLC for exclusive negotiating rights for property owned by the city and its water department adjacent to the Kilroy Airport Center and the 405 freeway. The property was originally part of a planned development by Kilroy Realty, developer of the Kilroy Airport Center, which opened in the late 1980s and is one of the city’s premier business parks. The project never moved forward and a lease with Kilroy for the site was terminated in 2009.

 

Don Temple Storage is located on a parcel within the proposed Epson site. That lease may be terminated “under certain conditions provided by the agreement,” according to the city council item.