{"id":298893,"date":"2026-07-17T19:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298893\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:03:56","slug":"manhattan-beach-studios-shopped-as-possible-defense-tech-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298893\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Beach Studios Shopped As Possible Defense Tech Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/placeholder.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lenders on <a class=\"tag tag-47409\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/hackman-capital-partners\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"47409\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hackman Capital Partners<\/a>&#8216;\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-160920\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/manhattan-beach-studios\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"160920\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manhattan Beach Studios<\/a>\u00a0are selling its $240M mortgage, leaning on the South Bay submarket&#8217;s booming <a class=\"tag tag-118261\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/aerospace\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"118261\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">aerospace<\/a> and <a class=\"tag tag-198092\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/defense-technology\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"198092\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">defense technology<\/a> industries in its marketing materials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s never been a more perfect site for advanced manufacturing,\u201d Cushman &amp;\u00a0Wakefield Vice Chair Kevin Donner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-16\/hollywood-sci-fi-lot-pitched-as-site-to-make-real-space-age-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Bloomberg<\/a>. \u201cPeople have been tracking it for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cushman has the listing for the\u00a015-soundstage campus.\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-140546\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/deutsche-bank-ag\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"140546\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deutsche Bank AG<\/a> and <a class=\"tag tag-4506\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/kennedy-wilson\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"4506\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kennedy Wilson<\/a> are the lenders on the property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The South Bay\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/los-angeles\/news\/industrial\/los-angeles-aerospace-defense-leasing-real-estate-long-beach-south-bay-133483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has been a magnet<\/a>\u00a0for defense tech and aerospace companies to grow as federal funding for their products increases. Established companies including <a class=\"tag tag-157627\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/raytheon\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"157627\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Raytheon<\/a> and <a class=\"tag tag-6447\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/northrop-grumman\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"6447\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Northrop Grumman<\/a> as well as newer heavy-hitters such as <a class=\"tag tag-4135\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/spacex\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"4135\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> have made their home in the submarket. These tenants\u00a0accounted for 11% of new industrial real estate leases since the start of 2025, according to Newmark.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hackman Capital Partners bought Manhattan Beach Studios in 2019 in a\u00a0$650M deal. The property became part of Hackman&#8217;s large portfolio of studio real estate that has struggled to stay afloat as interest rates rose and the entertainment industry weathered strikes and changes to the way it does business. Lenders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/los-angeles\/news\/commercial-real-estate\/hackman-capital-partners-studio-real-estate-manhattan-beach-default-135064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">filed a notice of default<\/a>\u00a0on the property in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another\u00a0Hackman property, Studio City&#8217;s\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-201111\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/radford-studio-center\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"201111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Radford Studio Center<\/a>, was repossessed by lenders led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and is slated to sell to Netflix\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/los-angeles\/news\/capital-markets\/netflix-to-buy-storied-studio-at-78-discount-to-previous-valuation-135093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">at a large discount<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hackman hasn&#8217;t handed Manhattan Beach Studios back yet, Bloomberg reported.\u00a0It is in lease negotiations with more than\u00a0four potential new tenants, a representative for Hackman told Bloomberg, adding that lenders are also interested in financing the site, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lenders on Hackman Capital Partners&#8216;\u00a0Manhattan Beach Studios\u00a0are selling its $240M mortgage, leaning on the South Bay submarket&#8217;s booming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[48228,113677,113678,75,113680,84,83,9,24,63,113679],"class_list":["post-298893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-hackman-capital","tag-kennedy-wilson","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-beach-studios","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-soundstages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}