New Medical Offices, Retail Spots on the Way
Ahandful of new businesses are coming to Santa Clarita this month, including everything from new tenants for a medical office space to new retailers in Plum Canyon.
Moving into the space across from the Newhall School District formerly occupied by Einstein Academy at 25425 Orchard Village Road, which is known as the Orchard Medical Center, are a dental office and an outpatient care center.
The two-story, 41,244square-foot medical building is located on the northwest corner of Orchard Village Road and Wiley Canyon Road.
Dr. Daniel Iannotti is opening an office for his dentistry practice in Suite 240, which is a 1,500-square-foot space. The practice is moving because its current location at 25880 Tournament Road was purchased by California Institute of the Arts from a business entity named CNL Retirement Mop Valencia CA in August 2021 for $7.874 million.
Calarts purchased the Tournament Road location, which is across the street from its campus, through bond proceeds, according to Ann Wiens, spokeswoman for the renowned Valencia arts college.
A remodeling of that location is underway, with the first spaces scheduled for completion this summer. She noted that no spaces are occupied by Calarts yet. The building is intended to house nonstudent-facing offices, such as IT, payroll, accounting, human resources, finance and several others, as well as music practice rooms and some noninstructional student spaces.
“The project will free up space in our main campus building to ensure studentfacing services and offices are centralized, proximate and easily accessible to students,” Wiens wrote in an email to the Business Journal.
The other new tenant for the building on Orchard Village Road is Valencia Ambulatory Surgery Center, which is moving into Suite 280.
VASC is taking about 4,000 square feet
of space in the building, according to Jason Crawford, community development director for the city of Santa Clarita. The facility is permitted for a new medical office and an outpatient surgery center, he added.
Also coming soon to Santa Clarita is a new Havana Savannah location.
The coffee house, which was started by local inventor Bruce Burrows and named after his daughter, an aspiring country music artist named Savannah Burrows, opened its first location on Copper Hill Drive.
The second location, which recently received the green light, is slated for 18344 Soledad Canyon Road, in the same center as a U.S. Post Office. The address is just west of Sierra Highway and across Soledad Canyon from the Canyon Country Community Center. The location was previously a nail salon, according to city officials.
For Funko figurine collectors, Pop SCV is opening a retail store in Saugus that you might be interested in.
Available at a number of stores throughout the SCV already, the specialty store is slated for 28124 Bouquet Canyon Road, near the La Cocina Mexican restaurant, on the northeast corner of the its intersection with Plum Canyon Road.
The brand describes itself as a “leading pop culture lifestyle brand” on its website that boasts of being “the world’s largest proprietor of licenses,” which sells collectible small dolls, bobbleheads and the like. The Funko website counts the product line as including “vinyl figures, action toys, plush, apparel, board games, housewares, NFTS and accessories.”
For those keeping count of Jersey Mike’s locations in town, the ninth, which was mentioned as coming soon last month, is officially open now at 26557 Golden Valley Road, near the Rattler’s side of the shopping center.
For those at home keeping track of the Jersey Mike’s-starbucks arms race for control of the SCV’S restaurant/retail space, the sandwich purveyor is still approximately a dozen locations behind the caffeine titan, according to the most recent listings available online.
However, that figure doesn’t include the newest Starbucks location, which is slated for the former Realty Executives office at the intersection of Whites and Soledad canyon roads. During a recent City Council meeting, the future Starbucks was annexed into a streetlight maintenance district, which is responsible for funding operations of the 17,598 streetlights owned by and located throughout the city of Santa Clarita.