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FTZ 202 Deals Expired. Now the L.A. Port Wants Them Back
FTZ News: The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners put three Foreign-Trade Zone developer agreements for FTZ 202 sites in Carson on the consent calendar of a revised special meeting Wednesday at Banning’s Landing Community Center.
The meeting started at 10 a.m. It replaced a regular session that had been set for Sept. 24 and was canceled. The agenda is posted on the Port of Los Angeles site. President Beatrice C. Hsu chairs the board. Yolanda M. De La Torre is vice president. Sheila M. Lewis, Edward R. Renwick and I. Lee Williams sit with them.
Items 3, 4 and 5 are Cargo Marketing requests. The agreements would allow the properties to remain in FTZ 202 and would keep the Harbor Department, as grantee, working with the landowners who promote the zone. Staff wrote the same five-year term on all three, with three five-year renewal options. The director of environmental management called the actions administratively exempt from CEQA under Article II, Section 2(f) of the city’s guidelines.
Site No. 4 is 354.1 acres of warehouse and office space about 10 miles north of the port. Two owners split it. Carson Dominguez Properties, L.P., a Newport Beach real-estate firm, holds about 186.84 acres. Watson Partners, L.P., based in Carson, holds about 167.26 acres. Each company would sign its own developer agreement. Both have had developer pacts since 2010. Those pacts expired in April 2025.
Watson Land Company, also of Carson, is on a separate paper for Site Nos. 10 and 11. Staff listed those sites as 325.5 acres of warehouse and 153.79 acres of office space, about nine miles north of the port. Watson Land’s last developer agreement dated from 2020 and also ran out in April 2025.
The board reports repeat the department’s usual language: Objective 3 of the strategic plan, better financial performance of port assets, and Objective 2 on supply-chain efficiency. They note that zone procedures can defer, reduce or eliminate duties. The sites are not marine terminals. They are inland warehouses and offices inside the FTZ 202 service area.
Consent items 1 and 2 are unrelated. One assigns Agreement No. 26-10200 from Graviton Consulting Services, Inc., to Graviton Consulting Services, LLC, after Highstreet IT Solutions took 100 percent of the LLC on Feb. 27. The other awards Bid No. F-1287 to Pamco Machine Works of Rancho Cucamonga for $970,456.88 to inspect and reseal gear boxes on the Badger Avenue Bridge.
Regular calendar item 6 would amend Permit No. 900 with WWL Vehicle Services Americas at Berths 195-200A, extend the term through Dec. 31, 2031, with an option through 2036, freeze the 2026 CPI/GRI bump, and set a minimum annual guarantee of $20,846,592 starting Jan. 1, 2027. Item 7 would readopt Port Master Plan Amendment No. 30 after the City Council sent it back under Charter Section 245. That amendment would redesignate 16.2 acres north of John S. Gibson Boulevard from Open Space to Maritime Support for a truck and chassis lot proposed by AIGGRE San Pedro Industrial Owner LLC.
Closed session lists anticipated litigation and talks with APM Terminals, Pacific Crane Maintenance Company, LA28 at Berths 46-51, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Veterans of World War II.
The agenda asks the board to approve the three Carson developer agreements and let the executive director sign them. It does not say how the votes went./.
