Lighting manufacturer to locate within McWhinney’s Baseline development

Editor’s note: This report has been updated to denote when the manufacturing facility will be occupied.

BROOMFIELD — Bega North America Inc., a California-based architectural lighting company, will open a 153,000-square-foot manufacturing facility within the Baseline Industrial Innovation district.

The district is part of McWhinney Real Estate Service’s Baseline development in Broomfield.  McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc. said in a press statement that the company will locate at 1775 W. 160th Ave. in Baseline and lease McWhinney’s second Class-A speculative industrial building in that industrial district. The building has been built and will be ready for occupancy by late this year or early next.

Bega North America develops and produces high-quality luminaires for interior and exterior architecture with market penetration in both North and South America. Its primary North American manufacturing facility and corporate headquarters are located in Carpinteria, California, with its international headquarters in Menden, Germany, McWhinney’s statement said. 

“Baseline Industrial not only offered the right expansion opportunity for our organization and our  employees, but it also was the right community fit,” Bega President Don Kinderdick said. “We  were seeking more than a building and found an innovation district that’s part of a larger  community, filled with planned amenities, trails, conveniences, and most importantly, a shared  vision for sustainability. With this second location, we look forward to supporting future light  technology advancement within Colorado that will benefit our customers globally.” 

Bega will occupy all of the building it will lease, allowing space for future growth on site. McWhinney broke ground in May on an additional 306,000 square feet of industrial offerings, adding two more spec buildings at 153,000 square feet each. McWhinney’s first industrial building in the district was completed in 2018 and houses OED, CML Security and Rig Up.

“Broomfield’s continued strong economic growth and Baseline’s amenities and proximity to the  north Denver metro transportation corridor are key factors in the community’s continued  development,” Kyle Harris, general manager and senior vice president for master-planned  communities at McWhinney, said in a written statement. “We’ve been intentional about increasing our innovation district footprint to accommodate a variety of local and national companies’ expansion needs, and we  look forward to the economic impact tenants will bring to the state’s strongest-growing region.”  

“We are seeing tremendous growth and demand in the market for new Class-A flex space,” said  Clyde Wood, vice president of commercial and mixed-use development at McWhinney. “We  expect that our master-planned communities will continue to attract discerning tenants based on  our best-in-class buildings, community amenities and flexibility to accommodate a broad range of users and their evolving needs.” 

Real estate broker CBRE assisted with the lease transaction on the Bega building.