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Federal Public Defender’s Office Expands in Downtown L.A.
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Commercial Observer
The Trump administration cut a significant amount of federal office space in Southern California last year, but at least one agency is going the other way and expanding its footprint in Downtown Los Angeles.
The General Services Administration (GSA), which handles the federal government’s non-military real estate portfolio, inked a 74,056-square-foot lease for the Federal Public Defenders Central District of California, at Onni Group’s 145 South Spring Street, adjacent to City Hall and LAPD’s headquarters.
The 10-story, 243,749-square-foot office previously housed the L.A. Times for nearly 85 years (until the publication moved to El Segundo in 2018).
The federal public defender’s office is relocating from its full-building, 54,827-square-foot lease at Capstone Equities’ 321 East 2nd Street, just one block southeast of its new digs.
JLL’s Peter Hajimihalis, James Malone, Dana Vargas and Howard Traul represented Onni Group in the deal, alongside the landlord’s in-house team of Neal Linthicum and Malcolm Kluth.