Specialty facility management for cold storage, food, and industrial operators.
For owners whose assets do not run like a standard office building — refrigerated warehouses, food-grade facilities, USDA-approved space, temperature-controlled distribution, high-turn specialty industrial. Operator behind these facilities across Southern California since 1987.
Facility management for temperature-controlled and specialty industrial assets.
Specialty facility management is the day-to-day operation of an asset where a system failure has an operational consequence within hours, not weeks. A compressor down at 3 a.m. is not a maintenance ticket. It is product loss and, in the wrong facility, a compliance event.
These engagements sit alongside our property and asset management practices but run on their own playbook: refrigeration systems oversight, cold-chain compliance depth, and vendor management with contractors who actually service the equipment on your dock.
Six capabilities that keep specialty assets performing.
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Refrigeration systems oversight
Central ammonia, glycol, direct-expansion, and cascade systems. OEM relationships with the shops that built and can rebuild what is on your rooftop.
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Compliance depth
FDA, USDA, OSHA, and FSMA — with the paperwork trail owners and auditors need. Cold-chain compliance is the difference between an operating asset and a stranded one.
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Preventive maintenance programs
Scheduled inspections, refrigerant leak monitoring, defrost cycle validation, backup power drills. Written programs, not verbal handshakes.
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Vendor management
Refrigeration contractors, refrigeration OEMs, and the specialty trades your building actually needs. We hold the vendor relationships so you do not have to.
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Energy and utility optimization
Utility rate strategy, refrigeration load management, and capex ROI on system upgrades. Cold storage is a utility-heavy asset — treat it like one.
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Tenant and operator liaison
Whether the tenant is a 3PL, a food manufacturer, or an owner-operator, we sit between them and building systems so operations stay on track.
Why owners trust us with specialty assets.
- Four decades principal-led
- Our founder still walks specialty engagements. Cold-chain rewards operators who have seen a full cycle of equipment turnover.
- In-house maintenance network
- Vendor bench in Southern California is deep because we have been assembling it since 1987. We know which contractors show up on Saturdays.
- Cold-chain compliance depth
- A decade managing the Guardian Life Insurance refrigerated portfolio through exit taught us how audits actually go.
Guardian Life Insurance — refrigerated portfolio.
A decade of asset management and operations across an 81,664 SF refrigerated facility in Commerce (ammonia central, 24/7 monitored, 39 docks) and a 60,000 SF freezer distribution facility in the City of Industry (20°F). Managed the assets through a successful institutional exit.
Answers before the first call.
How long does cold-chain compliance onboarding take when you take over a new facility?
Typical onboarding runs 30 to 60 days depending on documentation quality at handoff. We audit refrigeration system records, compliance paperwork, and vendor contracts first, then close gaps before any operational handoff.What is your SLA for a refrigeration outage?
Alarm-to-technician-on-site targets are documented per facility during onboarding. Our vendor bench is deep enough in Southern California to hit response windows that generic property managers cannot.What is your reporting cadence?
Monthly written operational reports, quarterly financial and capital-plan reviews. For institutional owners we ladder into their reporting timelines directly.Do you manage the tenant relationship or just the building?
Both. In owner-operator situations we manage the tenant relationship end-to-end. In investor-owned situations we sit between ownership and the operator with a documented boundary — the owner sees clean reporting; the operator gets responsive building services.Can you take over a facility mid-lease?
Yes. We regularly onboard specialty facilities from other managers or from owner self-management. The compliance-documentation audit is where we always start.What is the difference between what you do here and standard property management?
Standard property management runs the leasing calendar, the janitor, and the roof. Specialty facility management runs the refrigeration system, the compliance paperwork, and the cold-chain vendor bench — because on these assets, those are the things that determine whether the property performs.