Walt Disney Parks and Resorts has acquired Yamaha Motor Company USA’s longtime 25-acre U.S. headquarters, the Enterprise Journal discovered, as Yamaha prepares to maneuver its remaining native motor operations to Georgia.
Avison Younger, the agency that dealt with the sale, didn’t share the client’s title or the sale worth for the property at 6555 Katella Ave. in Cypress. Nonetheless, property information present that Burbank-based Walt Disney Firm’s Parks and Resorts division accomplished the acquisition on Sept. 23.
Switch tax information on the grant deed present the property offered for about $115 million, the Enterprise Journal estimates.
Patrick Barnes, Paul Clark, Nick Slonek, and Jae Estep from Avison Younger represented Yamaha Motor Co. within the sale.
“This can be a transformational second for each Yamaha and the town of Cypress,” mentioned Barnes, principal at Avison Younger.
“The acquisition underscores the caliber of this asset and the power of the native market. Within the years forward, we anticipate the neighborhood to profit from better financial exercise for close by companies and the continuation of Cypress’s lengthy historical past of company funding.”
They didn’t present additional remark.
Officers from Yamaha and Disneyland Resort didn’t reply to the Enterprise Journal’s request for an announcement on Friday.
Yamaha Motor Division
The sale comes as companies cope with rising tariffs and better manufacturing prices.
Yamaha Motor officers earlier instructed the Enterprise Journal that shifting the headquarters and promoting the 25-acre property are a part of an even bigger plan to make its U.S. operations extra worthwhile as market situations change.
Iwata-based Yamaha purchased the Cypress land in 1978 and opened its U.S. headquarters there in 1979.
The campus is zoned for industrial use and features a warehouse, flex house and workplace constructing totaling 279,000 sq. toes.
The positioning covers a full metropolis block and is accessible from Katella Avenue, Holder Avenue and Yamaha Approach.
It is likely one of the largest redevelopment websites in North Orange County, the place house is proscribed.
The corporate moved its marine enterprise to Kennesaw, Georgia, in 1999 and its motorsports operations there in 2019.
Solely company and monetary providers remained in Cypress.
Yamaha officers beforehand mentioned they deliberate to lease all the property again till Dec. 31, 2028, whereas ending the transfer to Georgia.
With this buy, Disney, Orange County’s high employer, now controls a big industrial and workplace property about seven miles — or a couple of 15–20-minute drive — west of Disneyland Resort in Anaheim.
