Partnership Will Develop Xerox Centre : Three Towers to Be Included in Office Park in Santa Ana

Birtcher Xerox Partners will develop Xerox Centre, a $200-million high-rise office park on a 10.6-acre site in Santa Ana formerly occupied by Allstate Insurance Co.’s regional headquarters.

When completed, the project, on 4th Street near the intersection of the Santa Ana (5) and Newport (55) freeways will have a total of 1.2 million square feet of office space in three buildings, according to W. Richard Oakes Jr., director of commercial/industrial development for Birtcher Equities. The firm and Xerox Realty Corp. have formed a general partnership to develop the site, he added.

“Xerox Corp. has already leased 125,000 square feet in the first phase of the project, a 15-story building on which construction will start in the fourth quarter of 1986,” Oakes said. “The second and third phases will consist of 20- and 25-story towers, respectively.”

Plans call for the existing two-story Allstate building--vacated Nov. 1--to be refurbished and temporarily leased during construction of the first building in Xerox Centre. The project is being designed by Strock Architects of Newport Beach and McLarand, Vasquez & Partners of Costa Mesa.

Since 1979, Xerox Realty Corp., the Stamford, Conn.-based subsidiary of Xerox Corp., has been involved in developing more than 3 million square feet of office space in the United States and Canada.