Scandia Fun Center in Ontario will be replaced with warehouses – San Bernardino Sun

When Scandia Fun Center closed its Ontario location in February, the company president said it wouldn’t be replaced with another theme park.

He was right: The property will be converted to warehouses.

On Tuesday, April 16, Chicago-based Bridge Development Partners announced that it has acquired the site of the former Scandia park, and plans to build two “speculative industrial buildings” on the 11.9-acre site. The company is building them without tenants lined up.

The first building will sit on the southern part of the property. When completed, the 178,462-square-foot building will have 32-foot clearance inside, a 155-foot truck court, along with 10,000 square feet of office space. It’ll also have 23 exterior docks and parking for 99 cars.

On the northern end of the parcel, the second building also will have a 32-foot internal clearance height in a 90,252-square-foot building. It will have a 137-foot truck court, 8,000 square feet of office space, 11 exterior docks and parking for 56 cars.

Including the Ontario development, Bridge Point has 8.5 million square feet of property in development in California, according to a company news release.

“The City of Ontario has been very welcoming,” Greg Woolway, vice president of Acquisitions in Bridge’s California office, is quoted as saying in the press release. “Its business-friendly climate makes this the ideal location to continue to grow Bridge’s presence in the region, and we look forward to delivering this ideally-located, state-of-the-art distribution center to the heart of the Inland Empire.”