SoCal’s Emptiest Warehouse Markets: Beaumont/Hemet Hits 30% Vacancy as Amazon Doubles Down on the High Desert

Southern California's highest-vacancy industrial submarkets, most of them on the region's outer edges, are carrying a heavy load of empty space, with Beaumont/Hemet at 30 percent, Upland/Montclair at 20.1 percent, the High Desert at 16.7 percent and the Antelope Valley at 16 percent, yet Amazon, Lecangs and speculative developers keep committing millions of square feet to the fringe on the bet that the cheapest rents in the region will eventually pull tenants in.