Anaheim / North Orange County
The one showroom-type operator we could confirm inside Anaheim is Mattress Firm at Anaheim Hills Festival, where the big boxes (Target, Hobby Lobby, Nordstrom Rack) give a furniture or bedding user larger-format co-tenancy. Several showroom brands we checked place their nearest stores just outside the city: Sleep Number's California list shows Brea (1160 E. Imperial Highway) and Santa Ana but no Anaheim store, and Mor Furniture's locator shows a Brea showroom and none in Anaheim. For an EV or vehicle showroom, the zoning narrows the map to C-G parcels, or DA-1 and DA-2 inside the Festival.
Population
344,521
Median HHI
$95,227
Median age
36.2
Homeownership
46.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.
Primary retail corridors
Harbor Boulevard · Lincoln Avenue · Euclid Street · Katella Avenue · Ball Road · State College Boulevard · Imperial Highway
Specific shopping centers in Anaheim that already carry credible co-tenancy for this use. Listed in approximate order of fit.
8020 East Santa Ana Canyon Road
Anchors / key tenants: Target, Nordstrom Rack, Hobby Lobby, 24 Hour Fitness, ULTA
Anaheim Hills’ affluent suburban center — different trade area than the rest of Anaheim. Target, Nordstrom Rack and Hobby Lobby anchor the center, with casual dining, fitness, and family-service retail. The former Edwards theater closed in 2022 and that part of the site is approved for apartments.
400 W. Disney Way
Anchors / key tenants: House of Blues Anaheim, Lucky Strike, Mission Escape Games, Flightdeck
$284M lifestyle center one block east of Disneyland Resort (opened 2008). Restaurant- and entertainment-heavy with two dance clubs, House of Blues, and family-fun attractions. Visitor-and-tourist daypart dominates.
1565 Disneyland Drive
Anchors / key tenants: LEGO Store, World of Disney
Size: 330,000 SF
Disney-curated open-air shopping and dining adjacent to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. Brand and credit bar is unique — Disney selects tenants directly. Strong tourist daypart year-round.
440 South Anaheim Boulevard
Anchors / key tenants: Anaheim Packing House food hall, Farmers Park, MAKE Building
Adaptive-reuse food hall and creative-retail district in downtown Anaheim. 30+ food vendors in the Packing House, a winery, a distillery and a burger bar in the MAKE Building, and Farmers Park lawn programming. The chef-driven and craft-food node for north OC.
Harbor Boulevard from Katella to Ball
Anchors / key tenants: hotel/tourist-serving retail and dining
The dense Harbor Boulevard corridor serving Disneyland-area hotels and visitors. National casual dining, value retail, and tourist-serving operators dominate.
Existing operators are the most honest comp for whether a use can support Anaheim rents. These are publicly visible showroom retail space businesses currently trading in the market.
Mattress Firm (Anaheim Hills Festival)
Anaheim Hills Festival, Santa Ana Canyon Road, Anaheim Hills, CA
Listed on the center's own directory ('Now Open at Anaheim Hills Festival'). The directory does not give a suite number. It shares the center with large-format tenants the owner's site names, including Target, Hobby Lobby and Nordstrom Rack.
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Furniture parking is lower in Anaheim: Table 42-A (18.42.040) parks Retail Sales-General at 4 spaces per 1,000 sq ft but Furniture, Carpet and Flooring at 2.25 per 1,000. A 20,000 sq ft furniture showroom needs 45 spaces instead of 80, which can make a building work that falls short at the general retail count.
02
Use class: 18.36.040 puts stores selling furniture and flooring in Retail Sales-General, which Table 8-A (18.08.030) permits by right in all five commercial zones (C-NC, C-R, C-G, O-L, O-H). Building Material Sales (lumberyards, tile and roofing-materials stores with outdoor storage) is prohibited in every commercial zone, so a tile or stone showroom should keep stock indoors and describe itself as retail. Wholesaling needs a conditional use permit in C-R and C-G and must be accessory to a retail use.
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EV and vehicle showrooms: Automotive-Vehicle Sales, Lease and Rental needs a conditional use permit in C-G and is prohibited in C-NC, C-R, O-L and O-H. An Automotive-Sales Agency Office (Retail), the dealer office class, needs a CUP in C-G, O-L and O-H and is prohibited in C-NC and C-R. Vehicle sales parking is 2.5 spaces per 1,000 sq ft of interior showroom plus 4 per 1,000 of office and 4 per 1,000 of parts, sales, storage and repair space.
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At Anaheim Hills Festival, Festival Specific Plan No. 90-1 (Chapter 18.108, Table 108-B) permits Retail Sales-General in DA-1, DA-2, DA-3 and DA-5 and prohibits it in DA-4. A dealer's retail sales office is P/C in DA-1 and DA-2 only: a minor conditional use permit for one or two inventory vehicles on site and a full CUP for three or more. Vehicle sales, lease and rental is prohibited in every development area.
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Outdoor display: Retail Sales-Outdoor needs a conditional use permit in C-NC, C-R and C-G (subject to 18.38.190 and 18.38.200) and is prohibited in the office zones. Patio furniture, spa or grill showrooms that want sidewalk or lot display should price that hearing into the schedule.
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Check the governing chapter first. The Anaheim Resort (18.116), Anaheim Canyon (18.120) and Beach Boulevard (18.122) specific plans and the Brookhurst Commercial Corridor (18.22) and South Anaheim Boulevard Corridor (18.24) overlays carry their own rules, so the Table 8-A answers above apply only to base-zoned parcels.
Zoning, licensing, and demographic figures on this page come from the public records below. Codes and licenses change, so confirm with the city and the licensing agency before you sign.