Fullerton / North Orange County
Imperial Highway in north Fullerton has the confirmed large-format home store (Floor & Decor at 202 Imperial). The other place with big floor plates is Fullerton Town Center at Harbor Boulevard and Orangethorpe Avenue, a 249,019 sq ft center with Costco, Ross, AMC and Five Below, where the Amazon Fresh box shown on the manager's page may be open after Amazon's 2026 store closures. Design and trade showrooms that also sell to contractors should look at C-M zoned buildings, where the code names 'interior designer office, including showroom and sales' as a permitted use. Sleep Number's California list shows a store in Brea (1160 E. Imperial Hwy) and none in Fullerton.
Population
140,968
Median HHI
$104,286
Median age
36.9
Homeownership
51.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.
Primary retail corridors
Harbor Boulevard · Commonwealth Avenue · Chapman Avenue · Malvern Avenue · Imperial Highway
Specific shopping centers in Fullerton that already carry credible co-tenancy for this use. Listed in approximate order of fit.
1889–2291 W. Malvern Avenue
Anchors / key tenants: Target, Albertsons, Ross, Barnes & Noble
Regency Centers-owned retail core of the 293-acre Amerige Heights master-planned community (1,365 homes). Mix includes Bath & Body Works, Islands Fine Burgers & Drinks, Menchie's, Starbucks, McDonald's. The strongest national co-tenancy in Fullerton.
Existing operators are the most honest comp for whether a use can support Fullerton rents. These are publicly visible showroom retail space businesses currently trading in the market.
Floor & Decor, Fullerton (store 155)
202 Imperial Highway, Fullerton, CA 92835
Large-format hard surface flooring and tile store, per Floor & Decor's own store list. The one national showroom-format operator we could confirm inside the city.
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Home and kitchen retail is by right: FMC 15.30.030.2 and 15.30.030.3 permit 'Retail and service uses' and 'Home improvement center; hardware store' in G-C and C-3, and 15.30.030.4 permits home improvement and hardware in C-M. Chapter 15.04 defines that category to include electrical, mechanical and plumbing supplies and fixtures, paint, outdoor furniture and household appliances, so a kitchen, bath, lighting or appliance showroom selling to the public fits a by-right line.
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Retail versus wholesale: FMC 15.30.040(A) classifies a business by whichever activity brings in the majority of gross annual receipts, and sales to contractors and professionals count as wholesale. 15.30.040(B) bars warehousing in commercial zones except as incidental to retail or as listed for C-M. A trade-heavy showroom should document its retail share, or look at C-M, which permits interior designer offices with showroom and sales.
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EV and auto showrooms: automotive sales are a conditional use permit in G-C, C-3 and C-M and must meet the dealership standards in FMC 15.30.040(F): parking at 1 space per 400 sq ft of showroom and office, 1 per 250 sq ft of parts department and 1 per 2,000 sq ft of exterior display, ten-foot landscaped street setbacks, no outdoor loudspeakers, no test drives on residential streets, and no operation between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. within 100 feet of residential zoning.
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No furniture parking discount: Table 15.30.060(A) has no separate furniture or appliance ratio, so a showroom parks at the general commercial rate of 1 space per 250 sq ft (80 spaces for a 20,000 sq ft floor). Under 15.30.060(E), a by-right use moving into an existing building needs no added parking if the building is not expanded and the property has no open code enforcement case, which is the path for backfilling an existing box.
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Outdoor display: FMC 15.30.040(C) requires permitted activities to stay inside a building enclosed on at least three sides, with exceptions for patio furniture, lawn and garden equipment, play equipment and swimming pools (not in boxes), ceramics and stone goods, and general merchandise displays of up to five consecutive days in any 30-day period. Swimming pool sales and service is a CUP use in C-M.
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Construction review: FMC 15.30.045 sends any proposed construction in a commercial zone through site plan review under Chapter 15.47, so a new storefront, mezzanine or box split for a showroom at a center like Fullerton Town Center adds a city review step to the schedule.
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.