Apparel maker TravisMathew LLC is moving its headquarters to a larger facility in Huntington Beach that previously served as the home of Quiksilver Inc.
The privately held company, which makes golf and tennis clothes, lifestyle apparel products, and accessories, recently completed a deal to lease a little more than 80,000 square feet at 15202 Graham St. in one of the largest office deals reported in Orange County so far this year.
The two-story office is about a mile west of the San Diego (I-405) Freeway next to other industrial buildings long used by Huntington Beach-based Quiksilver, which emerged from bankruptcy protection last month. The apparel and footwear manufacturer moved out as part of a consolidation effort resulting from the bankruptcy. Its headquarters are now at a nearby building at 5600 Argosy Ave.
The 121,120-square-foot Graham Street building was put on the market last year for prospective tenants.
The 80,000 square feet TravisMathew will occupy had been marketed as a creative-office headquarters for new tenants. It also includes a little more than 40,000 square feet of mezzanine space that’s not part of the lease.
TravisMathew is scheduled to move into the facility this summer. Its lease there ends runs through early 2024, according to CoStar Group Inc. records.
CBRE Group Inc.’s Brad Bierbaum and J.B. Green represented the landlord, an affiliate of Irvine-based Sares-Regis Group, in the lease, and CBRE’s Dave Desper represented TravisMathew.
Doubling Space
The move more than doubles space for TravisMathew, which had been leasing approximately 30,000 square feet at a facility about a mile away at 14520 Delta Lane.
The company was formed in 2007 and focused on golf clothes before expanding to tennis apparel—Andy Roddick made a minority investment in the company a few years ago—and other product lines.
The men’s brand is sold in resorts and country clubs; Nordstrom; and golf retailers, such as PGA Tour Superstore, Golfsmith and Roger Dunn Golf Shops.
Its golf shirts typically sell for about $80, pants for close to $150, according to the company’s website.
TravisMathew opened its first stand-alone retail store at Fashion Island in 2014 and now also has locations in the La Jolla area of San Diego and in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The company doesn’t disclose sales figures. The Business Journal estimated it had about 50 employees last year, making it Orange County’s 33rd largest apparel company by employee count. Quiksilver ranked fourth as of last May, with 540 local employees, but has cut its local presence and operations during its bankruptcy-driven restructuring.
Quiksilver had leases for about 445,000 square feet of office and warehouse space in Huntington Beach prior to the bankruptcy.
It also rejected a lease for 223,000 square feet of industrial space at its Huntington Beach campus last November, according to regulatory filings. The move came as the company relocated some of its warehousing operations to a distribution center in the Inland Empire.
