Description:
Santa Cruz:
The City of Santa Cruz, California, is situated on the northern part of Monterey Bay about 74 miles south of San Francisco and 30 miles from San Jose. This proximity to major cities is attractive for businesses to base their office space in Santa Cruz through finding commercial office space listings. Santa Cruz is the county seat for the County of Santa Cruz. The major industries include agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, food processing, and high tech firms. This diversity offers many commercial real estate and commercial listings, as well as commercial office space and industrial properties. Many businesses have found it an advantage to find commercial listings in Santa Cruz.
Companies who look for spaces in Santa Cruz also search in these neighboring cities:
Aptos,
Gilroy, and
Morgan Hill.
Retail space: Santa Cruz is a center of the organic agriculture movement, and many specialty products as well as housing the headquarters of California Certified Organic Farmers. The diversity of businesses in this city offers many commercial real estate and commercial listings, as well as commercial office space and industrial properties. Tourist attractions include the classic Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk on the beach, the redwood forests, and Monterey Bay, which is protected as a marine sanctuary. Santa Cruz attracts many residents from surrounding towns and makes it a great location to start a retail business. Giro bicycle helmets, O'Neil's Surf Shop, The Santa Cruz Guitar Company, Kestrel Bicycles, the Good Earth Tea and Erik's Deli Cafe are also headquartered in Santa Cruz. Odwalla Juices was also founded in Santa Cruz. These shopping areas have significant amounts of small retail spaces that are perfect for small shops and restaurants. The attractions that Santa Cruz offers make it a great place for businesses to find commercial properties for rent or commercial real estate for lease. Retail space in this city can be found on Rofo at affordable prices.
Office space: The best known local high-tech companies are The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), Seagate, Borland, RF Micro Devices, and Plantronics. The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District provides bus service throughout Santa Cruz County. Metro also operates bus service between Santa Cruz (city) and San Jose. The ease of public transportation is very convenient to locate office space and commercial office space in this city. Connections are possible in San Jose. The convenient transportation system is plus advantage for businesses that are looking for commercial office space as well as office space property. Greyhound Lines bus service is another option for visiting Santa Cruz. The nearest airports for commercial travel are San Jose International Airport, Monterey Peninsula Airport, San Francisco International Airport, and Oakland International Airport. This proximity to airports is attractive for businesses to base their office space in Healdsburg through finding commercial office space listings. Many companies like to locate in Santa Cruz also because of its proximity to a very educated work force, as UC Santa Cruz is right in the area. This makes it an attractive place for companies to base office space in Santa Cruz. Small office spaces can be found using Rofo’s innovative search technology.
Warehouse space: From 1970 to present, Santa Cruz has been the home to numerous boatbuilding companies, including Moore Brothers, Bill Lee Yachts, Wilderness Boats, Alsberg Bros. Highways 1 and 17 are the main roads in and out of Santa Cruz. Geographically constrained between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Monterey Bay, the narrow transportation corridor served by Highway 1 suffers congestion. A highway widening project is underway. The interchange from Highway 1 Northbound to Highway 17 Southbound, onto Ocean Street, is commonly known as the "fish hook" due to its tightening curve. This easy access to these highways gives another reason to find warehouse space or industrial space listings in Santa Cruz.