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Article: Spaced out: the California Market Center showroom goes in search of tenants as home furnishing, gift companies close.(REAL ESTATE)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 10, 2009
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BRETT Marz has plenty of elbow room these days--probably too much. As owner of Bamko, a manufacturing and marketing consulting firm, he and several employees have been occupying a 7,200-square-foot showroom at the California Market Center.
The firm needs plenty of space to develop marketing plans for clients' products, ranging from stuffed animals to toy figurines. And for the past two months Bamko has had it--as the only tenant on the 10th floor of the downtown L.A. fashion mart.
"We're the lonely rangers around here," said Marz, a 27-year-old entrepreneur who got his start in 1999 making custom T-shirts for USC ...