Gorilla Movers is a preferred vendor with H.G. Fenton, and our crews handle office, warehouse and R&D moves for tenants across their San Diego County commercial portfolio.
These are business parks, not apartment buildings
H.G. Fenton has been a San Diego owner and operator since 1906, and the Fenton properties our crews work are commercial: Silverton Business Center and Metroplex Business Center in the Miramar industrial belt, Carlsbad Corporate Center and Carlsbad Crossroads in the Carlsbad R&D belt, Camino West Business Park in south Carlsbad, and Mission Valley Heights, the park Fenton built over about two decades and put its own headquarters in.
So the move is a business move. Nobody is reserving a passenger elevator for a sofa. The questions are which suites you hold, what the roll-up door and dock give you, how much of the equipment is yours rather than the landlord's, and what has to be running again on Monday morning.
Dock, roll-up door, or a glass front
Flex space is usually two moves in one building. The front half is offices, desks, files and monitors, and it moves like an office. The back half is warehouse or lab, and it moves on pallet jacks and machine skates through a roll-up door. Which door you get decides the crew and the equipment, and a park can have both within one suite.
Carlsbad Crossroads runs to ten buildings of flex space. Metroplex runs to manufacturing and light industrial, where the machinery is the move and the furniture is an afterthought. We walk the suite before quoting, because a dock height nobody checked is the single most expensive surprise in a commercial move.
Insurance, and who the certificate names
A commercial certificate of insurance is not the residential one with a different address on it. Business park landlords and their property managers generally want the owning entity and the management company named, often with higher limits than a residential community asks for, and sometimes with additional insured status rather than certificate holder alone. Send us the requirement in writing and we return the certificate, at no charge, usually within one business day.
If your own lease carries a restoration or condition clause for the suite you are leaving, send that too. It frequently decides how much comes off the walls and who is responsible for the holes left behind.
After hours, and the Monday morning test
Most business parks would rather you move outside tenant hours, and most businesses would rather not lose a working day, so these moves tend to run evenings and weekends. That has to be arranged with the park, not assumed. Access, alarm codes and who is on site to open a gate at 6 PM on a Saturday are worth settling a fortnight out.
Sequence the move around what has to work first. Servers, phones and anything with a lead time on reconnection go on the truck last and come off first, and the rest follows. Our Miramar warehouse is minutes from Silverton and Metroplex, which on a short industrial haul means we can run the move in waves rather than in one overloaded trip.
Community moving guides
Building-by-building guides for the H.G. Fenton properties we serve in San Diego County, what to arrange before move day, where trucks stage, and what's nearby.
- Mission Valley Heights, Mission Valley, San Diego
- Silverton Business Center, Miramar, San Diego
- Metroplex Business Center, Miramar, San Diego
- Carlsbad Corporate Center, Carlsbad
- Carlsbad Crossroads, Carlsbad
- Camino West Business Park, Carlsbad
Answers residents ask most
Can you move after hours or over a weekend?
Do you move machinery and lab equipment, not just office furniture?
What does the COI cost?
How much notice do you need for a suite move?
Gorilla Movers is an independent moving company. Community names are used to identify buildings we serve; details like elevator, parking, and access policies change, always confirm specifics with your leasing office before move day.