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Seal Beach Lot Up for Sale as Hotel Project

Nearly 11 acres of undeveloped land on Seal Beach’s coast is up for sale, with expectations that the buyer will turn the site into a hotel.

The owner, Seal Beach-based Bay City Partners LLC, is asking $26.5 million for the 10.7-acre parcel, which has been empty for nearly 30 years. An adjacent 0.6-acre parcel also is for sale, for $6 million.

Zoning for the main property should allow up to 150 hotel rooms to be built on the site.

A majority of the land, which runs next to the beach, would remain available for public use and as open space.

Brokers at the Newport Beach office of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services Inc. are marketing the land, which is at the southwest corner of Marina Drive and First Street, next to the San Gabriel River channel.

The site’s about nine blocks north of the Seal Beach pier.


For more on this story, read the Aug. 18 edition of the Business Journal.


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Mark Mueller
Mark Mueller
Mark is the former Editor-in-Chief and current Community Editor of the Orange County Business Journal, one of the premier regional business newspapers in the country. He’s the fifth person to hold the editor’s position in the paper’s long history. He oversees a staff of about 15 people. The OCBJ is considered a must-read for area business executives. The print edition of the paper is the primary source of local news for most of the Business Journal’s subscribers, which includes most of OC’s major corporate and community players. Mark’s been with the paper since 2005, and long served as the real estate reporter for the paper, breaking hundreds of commercial and residential real estate stories. He took on the editor’s position in 2018.

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