Fluor Corp. has signed a lease with The Irvine Company to consolidate and expand its Southern California operations.
The engineering and construction company signed a lease for 169,254 square feet of space in three buildings at the Discovery Business Center area of the Irvine Spectrum, the Irvine Co. said Monday.
The new lease should allow for Fluor to grow here by about 100 employees. The three buildings should hold about 850 workers, according to Fluor officials.
Two of the three buildings it is moving into had been leased by Broadcom Corp., before the chipmaker moved its headquarters to a new, 685,000-foot-campus at University Research Park earlier this year.
The 445,000 square feet of space Broadcom recently vacated at the Spectrum now is largely filled. Irvine-based video game maker Blizzard Entertainment Inc. last month signed a lease for roughly 235,000 square feet of former Broadcom space.
Fluor moved its headquarters from Orange County to Texas in early 2006, but still maintains local operations in Aliso Viejo, Irvine and Long Beach, with a large number of engineering jobs remaining in the area.
Flour will be relocating workers now at University Research Park,where it took about 63,440 square feet of space,to the Spectrum, along with some employees from the other two locations.
The new lease is part of the company’s plan to consolidate parts of its energy and chemical divisions.
The company also said it plans to grow its local operations, and will begin hiring next month.
