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What a business gets on every job we take here:
Work the crew does inside your suite:
How a staged Tustin office relocation runs:
Cargo that goes on the truck every week:
Any work carried out inside the public right-of-way in Tustin needs an encroachment permit from the city’s Engineering Division, applied for through the Citizen Self Service Portal. If part of the load must occupy a lane or a sidewalk, we raise it at the walkthrough.
Old Town addresses need a second look. Frontages are narrow, and when the curb beside a business is unavailable the city points drivers to Old Town’s three public parking lots. We fix the truck’s standing spot before the date is set.
Managed centers publish their requirements in advance. The District at Tustin Legacy, for one, sets written insurance minimums for outside firms working for its tenants and lists several additional insureds on the certificate, so we ask management for the exact wording as soon as a date exists.
Tustin Legacy fills the nearly 1,600 acres of the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, commissioned in 1942 and closed on July 3, 1999. Redevelopment there runs under a reuse plan adopted in 1996 and amended as the MCAS Tustin Specific Plan/Reuse Plan in 2003, with build-out the city expects to take more than 20 years.
FLIGHT at Tustin Legacy adds about 372,000 square feet of creative office space on roughly 17 acres, completed in 2019. We confirm the current gate and the carry route with campus management before each job.
Next door the mix changes. The District at Tustin Legacy is a one-million-square-foot lifestyle center at Barranca Parkway and Jamboree Road, developed by Vestar/Kimco with Whole Foods Market, Costco, Target and Lowe’s as anchors, while Old Town runs along Main Street and El Camino Real, a mile and a half of storefronts dating back to the 1880s.
Arrival times here are shaped by freeway work more than by distance. The SR-55 between I-405 and I-5 has seen years of lane work, with scheduled closures and detours along the way, so we check the current Caltrans notices before setting a start time.
On the arterial side, Tustin Ranch Road was extended roughly 5,040 feet from Walnut Avenue to the future alignment of Valencia North Loop Road on former MCAS Tustin land, built to carry three traffic lanes in each direction with the City of Tustin as lead agency. Our own clock is printed rather than negotiated: a 3-hour minimum, 4 hours at 30+ miles from base, double drive time past 10 miles and overtime after 8 hours.
Business districts and building types in Tustin, with the planning note each one carries:
| Business district or building type in Tustin | What it adds to the plan |
|---|---|
| FLIGHT at Tustin Legacy, a creative office campus of about 372,000 square feet on roughly 17 acres | Shared space is part of the address: the city lists Mess Hall Market, a 12,000-square-foot food hall, and a 6,000-square-foot conference center, with Virgin Galactic, Syspro, Ottno Inc, Incipio and Noggin named as tenants. Truck position and the carry route are agreed with campus management first. |
| The District at Tustin Legacy, a one-million-square-foot lifestyle center at Barranca Parkway and Jamboree Road | Parking for work vehicles is coordinated before the crew arrives; customer stalls, delivery areas and other common areas may not be used for parking or work without the property manager’s prior authorization. |
| A tenant suite inside that center, while the center trades | Noise or fumes noticeable outside the work site are not allowed during opening hours, which the handbook puts at roughly 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. with store hours varying, and anything using plazas, sidewalks, parking areas or drive aisles is scheduled around operating and delivery hours. The management office answers Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Old Town storefront offices on Main Street and El Camino Real | Buildings here date back to the 1880s and frontages are narrow; when curbside space beside a business is unavailable, the city points drivers to the three public parking lots in Old Town. |
Yes. Crews work Monday through Sunday inside 8AM – 6PM, so a Saturday or Sunday stage is an ordinary booking rather than a favour. Weekend dates carry the Friday-to-Sunday tier: two movers and a truck at $135 in cash or $145 by card, three at $175 or $185, four at $215 or $225.
Yes, for $50. Send the wording your property manager supplies: at The District at Tustin Legacy, for instance, the certificate has to name a list of additional insureds and Vestar Development Co. as certificate holder. We issue it before move day, and we also ask management for the dock and freight lift arrangements at the same time.
It is hourly. Two movers and a truck are $119 cash or $129 by card Monday through Thursday, three movers $159 or $169, four movers $199 or $209, with higher Friday-to-Sunday rates. A 3-hour minimum applies, drive time counts double past 10 miles, a job 30+ miles from our base carries a 4-hour minimum, and hours past eight are billed as overtime.
That is the usual shape of the job. Departments or floors move one at a time, so people who have already moved are working while the next group packs. Boxes that cannot be delivered between stages can stay loaded on the truck overnight for $200 instead of being carried twice.
No. Our working window is 8AM – 6PM, seven days a week, and we would rather say so than promise a night crew we do not staff. If a building only permits loading outside those hours, tell us at the walkthrough and we will be straight with you about whether we fit.
We plan the truck position with the building or the city rather than hoping for a space. The city points drivers to the three public parking lots in Old Town when the curb beside a business is unavailable, and work inside the public right-of-way requires an encroachment permit from the Engineering Division. A second truck, if one is needed to shorten the carry, is $200.
An office relocation in Tustin is priced from what stands in the suite, so the first visit is a count. The coordinator walks both addresses, records desks, chairs, screens, filing cabinets, conference furniture and anything that needs more than two people, and notes where each item has to land.
That count becomes three numbers your side can plan around: crew size, hours and the number of stages. Two movers and a truck suit a small studio suite, while a floor of loaded laterals and a boardroom table usually calls for four.
Departments that must keep working through the move are marked apart from departments that can go dark for a day. So is everything nobody wants to pay to carry twice: broken chairs, dead monitors, archive boxes that belong in storage rather than in the new suite.
The inventory also splits the packing. Desk contents in labelled crates go quickly, while fragile, awkward or very heavy pieces are flagged here, since a single item over 300 lbs is handled by a crew of three at $150 and a piano in a lobby needs four at $200.
Whatever is agreed at the walkthrough goes into the written estimate. Nothing on the day should be a discovery, least of all a locked storeroom or a server closet nobody mentioned.
Labels are what make the first morning in a new suite quiet. Every box, chair, screen and cable bag carries a seat number and a destination room, and the same numbering goes onto a floor plan taped beside the door at the receiving address.
Workstations are photographed before anything comes apart. Panel hardware is bagged and tied to the station it came from, monitor arms stay with their own desk, and power supplies travel with the machine they feed.
IT equipment moves in a pass of its own. Screens go into padded cartons, docks and peripherals are boxed seat by seat, and rack gear travels upright to a spot where your technicians can get behind it.
We are straight about the boundary: the crew moves and places hardware, your own people or your contractor do the connecting. Scheduling those two around each other is part of the stage plan rather than an afterthought.
The same discipline applies to keys, fobs and access cards. They are listed at the walkthrough and handed over by name, because a locked server closet at 8AM costs more than an hour of labour.
Most delays on a commercial job are paperwork, not furniture. Centers and campuses here publish their requirements in advance, and the certificate of insurance is usually the first item on the list.
Ours costs $50 and is written to the wording the property manager supplies. Large managed centers such as The District at Tustin Legacy set their own insurance minimums and additional-insured lists for outside firms, which is why that wording has to come from management before anything else is booked.
Access is the second half of the request. We ask which entrance a full-size truck may use, where it can stand for the whole load, whether the freight lift is reserved by time slot, and which hours are open for loading at both addresses.
Trading hours can close a window before you notice. At The District, work producing noise or fumes noticeable outside the work site is barred while the center is open, roughly 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. with store hours varying, and the management office answers Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Few businesses can empty a suite in one pass, and none of them enjoy the attempt. A staged plan takes one department or one floor at a time, so the part of the company that has already moved is working while the next part is still packing.
Our crews run Monday through Sunday between 8AM and 6PM, which makes weekend stages routine. The Friday-to-Sunday rate applies on those days, and the difference sits in the estimate before you choose a date.
Night work is not on our menu, and we prefer to say it early. If your landlord allows loading only outside the working day, that is a constraint to raise at the walkthrough, not a surprise for the crew chief.
A two-stage plan usually looks the same: the first date clears archives, storage and furniture nobody uses, so the working floor stays usable; the second date moves desks, IT equipment and the people who sit at them.
Goods that cannot be delivered between stages stay loaded on the truck overnight for $200 rather than being handled twice. When a date collapses on your side, a same-day crew is possible if one is free, on the same published rates and the same 3-hour minimum.
Office furniture rarely leaves a room in the shape it was assembled in. Desks lose their tops, conference tables lose their legs, benching comes apart along the spine, and every fastener goes into a labelled bag taped to the part it belongs to.
Panel systems follow the same routine. Panels travel flat on carts with tiles and brackets grouped by station, so the rebuild follows the new floor plan instead of guesswork on the day.
Filing cabinets are the usual argument. Laterals travel loaded if the lift and the floor ratings permit; otherwise their contents go into indexed cartons, which costs time but saves a bent cabinet and a hard conversation with the property manager.
Reception counters, lounge seating, boardroom tables and break-room appliances are blanket-wrapped inside the suite. Lift cabs, door frames and floors are covered first, since the condition a center is left in is exactly what its deposit rules are about.
Reassembly belongs to the same booking. Workstations are rebuilt, desks levelled and chairs returned to their numbered seats before the clock stops, so nothing is left for a second visit you did not budget.
Tustin Legacy is the single biggest factor in local office work. It occupies the nearly 1,600 acres of the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, commissioned in 1942 and officially closed on July 3, 1999, and is being redeveloped under a reuse plan adopted in 1996 and amended as the MCAS Tustin Specific Plan/Reuse Plan in 2003.
Build-out there is a long horizon, more than 20 years by the city’s own estimate, so access roads and neighbours keep changing. FLIGHT at Tustin Legacy is one of its office destinations: about 372,000 square feet of creative office space on roughly 17 acres, completed in 2019 by Lincoln Property Company and Alcion Ventures.
Shared amenities on that campus matter to a carry route. The city lists Mess Hall Market, a 12,000-square-foot food hall, and a 6,000-square-foot conference center among its spaces, and names Virgin Galactic, Syspro, Ottno Inc, Incipio and Noggin as tenants.
Retail-adjacent offices bring active management with them. The District at Tustin Legacy is a one-million-square-foot lifestyle center at Barranca Parkway and Jamboree Road, opened in 2007 and developed by Vestar/Kimco, with Whole Foods Market, Costco, Target and Lowe’s among its anchors and a contractor handbook covering parking, trash and noise.
Old Town is the opposite problem. The business strip runs along Main Street and El Camino Real, where buildings date back to the 1880s; Main Street covers about a mile and a half from Williams Street to just past Newport Avenue, and the stock includes shop buildings at 130-140 West Main Street from around 1914.
Arterial access has improved on the Legacy side. Tustin Ranch Road was extended roughly 5,040 feet from Walnut Avenue to the future alignment of Valencia North Loop Road on former air station land, built to carry three traffic lanes in each direction with the City of Tustin as lead agency.
A commercial job goes wrong in the gaps between two organisations, so we ask for a short list in writing. It names the building contacts at both addresses, the rules they have issued, and the person on your side who can make a decision on the day.
Access sits at the top of that list. We need to know which door the crew uses, where the truck may stand while it is loaded, whether the lift is booked by time slot, and who unlocks the suite at 8AM.
Second comes a seating plan for the new address. Numbered seats on a printed plan turn an unloading crew into a placing crew, and that difference is usually an hour or two of billed time.
Third is a decision about paper and personal items. Desk contents either travel in crates the crew packs, or staff fill their own boxes by an agreed hour the evening before; mixing the two is what leaves a floor half-packed on the morning.
Last comes the disposal list. Furniture and equipment nobody wants should be tagged before the date, because paying a crew to carry a dead printer into a new suite is the easiest waste on any estimate.
Commercial work is billed by the hour at rates that do not move after signature. Two movers and a truck are $119 an hour in cash or $129 by card Monday through Thursday, and $135 or $145 from Friday to Sunday.
Larger crews follow the same pattern. Three movers and a truck are $159 or $169 midweek and $175 or $185 at the weekend; four movers, the usual crew for a full floor, are $199 or $209 midweek and $215 or $225 Friday to Sunday.
Four rules decide how the clock runs:
Extras are short and printed as well: $30 for fuel, a $50 deposit credited against the bill, $50 for a certificate of insurance, $200 for a second truck when one cannot hold the load, $200 to keep goods on the truck overnight, $150 for a single item over 300 lbs with a crew of three, and $200 for a piano with a crew of four.
One office serves all of this: 5530 Jillson Street in Los Angeles, with crews dispatched from there to Orange County, which is precisely why the mileage rules above are published instead of buried. Licences are USDOT 3398018, MC 1153871 and CAL-T0192140, and dispatch answers at 909-443-0004 from Monday to Sunday, 8AM – 6PM.
