Arrow Grand

The area near the intersection of Arrow Highway and Grand Avenue is Covina's major business district. Two major developments dominate the area–the Arrow Grand Business Park and the Covina Technology Center. These technology-dominated developments offer business and light-manufacturing users an ideal environment to grow their businesses, meeting needs from 5,000 to 80,000 square feet.

Arrow Grand Business Park

This 21-acre site is comprised of 31 parcels occupied by technology and light manufacturing users who, for the most part, own their sites. The center represents more than 500 professional jobs comprising a diverse variety of industries that is part of a partnership with the neighboring cities of Glendora and Azusa to convert existing properties along the Arrow Highway into technology facilities.

Covina's central Southern California location, reasonable costs, skilled labor pool, and hospitable, business-friendly local government attract technology-based businesses requiring access to Los Angeles markets but desiring a less dense urban environment. Covina offers easy access to the 10, 210, 605 and 57 freeways, which provide direct links to all Southern California cities, airports and shipping ports. Ontario Airport is located a half-hour away and Burbank Airport is only 45 minutes. Arrow Highway provides a state highway link for the technology corridor and Downtown Covina is home to a Metrolink station.

These transportation resources are critical to many of Arrow Grand's corporate residents. Previously know as AFC Components and Fastenersis a major stocking distributor for electro-mechanical components and fasteners used in everything from telecommunications to computers, semiconductors and lighting. Projects shipped through ACF are distributed throughout the world–and customers order everything from the black weather resistant cable ties used on windmill generators to electronic hardware.

Telecommunications test equipment giant Ameritec also calls Arrow Grand home. This successful corporation specializes in the design, manufacture and sale of state-of-the-art communications test equipment used for diagnosing telecom transmission, wireless and switch testing problems. The company is also a leading industry provider of sophisticated call generation systems, switch and network simulators, and signaling simulators.

Physicians Formula, Inc., one of the fastest growing cosmetics companies among the ten largest in the U.S. market by retail sales, has a large manufacturing facility in the Arrow-Grand business district. The products address specific, everyday cosmetic needs and include face powders, concealers, blushes, foundations, eye liners, eye shadows, brow makeup and mascaras.

Arrow Grand's location is also an important resource for Rolyn Optics. The company designs, creates and tests a diverse range of hardware such as studio motion picture cameras, spectrophotometers, tracking cameras, radiometers, star trackers, satellites and test equipment as well as a broad range of optical components for industrial uses.

Covina Technology Center
Covina Technology Center, the area's first business park catering strictly to technology users, is strategically located between the Foothill (210) and San Bernardino (10) Freeways with easy access to the 57 and 605 freeways. The center has been specifically planned and designed to accommodate tenants in technology related fields. With the dramatic growth in these fields in recent years, the entire San Gabriel Valley, and specifically the 210 corridor from Pasadena to San Dimas, has experienced a significant increase in the number of high tech companies locating in the area. Growth moving east from the vicinity of Cal-Tech in Pasadena has spurred the demand for office space that is able to accommodate these new companies' extensive telecommunication needs.

Located at the southwest corner of Grand Avenue and Arrow Highway, the Covina Technology Center, which includes five buildings ranging in size from 24,000 to 43,000 square feet, is designed to accommodate office, R&D and light industrial users with requirements from 8,000 square feet to 72,000 square feet.