MLS TEAM SIGNS LEASE IN LITTLE ITALY
San Diego Football Club to set up shop at 2100 Kettner
• San Diego Football Club will establish a corporate headquarters at the new, high-end 2100 Kettner building.
San Diego Football Club, Major League Soccer’s newest franchise, recently leased 15,000 square feet of office space for a corporate headquarters at the highend 2100 Kettner building in Little Italy and is slated to move in this week.
An executive with publicly traded real estate investment firm Kilroy Realty Corp., which owns the property, announced the lease during the company’s Oct. 25 conference call with investors. The deal was confirmed by San Diego Football
Club CEO Tom Penn, who declined to share specific lease terms.
“The chance to establish a corporate, business-operations
headquarters was a priority for us,” Penn told the Union-Tribune. “We’re thrilled to land in Little Italy at the brand new 2100 Kettner building, No. 1 for its central location for the entire community. And then No. 2, (because of) the building itself and the neighborhood.”
San Diego’s Major League soccer team, which officially became the league’s 30th franchise in mid-May, is co-owned by Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Mansour and the Sycuan tribe. It will begin play in February 2025 at Snapdragon Stadium in Mission Valley.
The office lease, which was first reported by CoStar, comes on the heels of the team’s brand reveal and ahead of the club’s groundbreaking event for its 28-acre training complex on the Sycuan Reservation, which is scheduled for early November.
The organization will use its Little Italy headquarters to house as many as 100 people in the team’s ticket sales, corporate partnership sales, marketing, community relations, finance and legal divisions, Penn said. The club is eyeing a quick move-in with temporary furniture and shared workspaces. Some staffers are expected to start working at 2100 Kettner as soon as Thursday, Penn said.
The lease was heralded by Kilroy in its most recent earnings report as a harbinger for more leasing activity at the firm’s marquee downtown San Diego property, which remains mostly vacant two years after being completed.
“We signed yesterday a 15,000-square-foot lease at