Huntington Beach / Coastal Orange County
Beach Boulevard is the pad spine: In-N-Out (18062), two Taco Bells, two Jack in the Box units, a Chipotle and a Del Taco all have Beach Boulevard addresses, and the corridor carried about 65,000 to 72,000 vehicles a day between Talbert and Warner in Caltrans' 2023 counts. Edinger Avenue around Bella Terra is the second cluster, with the newer In-N-Out (opened 2023) at 7902 Edinger and freestanding Bank of America and drive-up Wells Fargo buildings in the center itself. Goldenwest at Warner (Chick-fil-A and a Starbucks drive-thru) and Brookhurst at Adams (Raising Cane's and a Starbucks drive-thru) are neighborhood corners where national QSR brands already operate.
Population
195,240
Median HHI
$120,919
Median age
44
Homeownership
55.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.
Primary retail corridors
Beach Boulevard · Pacific Coast Highway · Main Street · Edinger Avenue · Adams Avenue · Warner Avenue
Specific shopping centers in Huntington Beach that already carry credible co-tenancy for this use. Listed in approximate order of fit.
Beach Boulevard / Edinger Avenue
Anchors / key tenants: big-box, automotive, and value-tier retail corridor
Heavy traffic-count corridor with big-box, value, automotive, and casual restaurant pattern. Daily-needs and service-retail leasing here looks very different than Pacific City or Main Street.
7777 Edinger Avenue
Anchors / key tenants: Whole Foods, Costco, Kohl's, REI, Ulta Beauty, The Cheesecake Factory
Size: 778,000 SF
PGIM-owned regional center, ≈96.8% leased. Whole Foods anchors the grocery; Costco holds a ground lease. Recent reuse: Staples closed in early 2023 and was redeveloped into Ulta Beauty. Mixed-use Residences component adds steady weekday foot traffic.
Existing operators are the most honest comp for whether a use can support Huntington Beach rents. These are publicly visible retail pad space businesses currently trading in the market.
In-N-Out Burger (Huntington Beach II, store 387)
7902 Edinger Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA 92647
Drive-thru and dining room, with an open date of January 26, 2023 in In-N-Out's finder. On Edinger Avenue west of Beach Boulevard, next in address order to the 7777 to 7881 Edinger addresses Bella Terra's tenants use; it is not in the Bella Terra directory.
In-N-Out Burger (Huntington Beach, store 180)
18062 Beach Boulevard, Huntington Beach, CA 92648
Drive-thru and dining room on Beach Boulevard, open since 2004 per In-N-Out's finder.
Chick-fil-A (Goldenwest & Warner)
16961 Goldenwest Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92647
The only Huntington Beach restaurant in Chick-fil-A's California directory. Its page lists drive-thru service and hours of 6:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Raising Cane's (Adams Ave)
10142 Adams Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA 92646
The city's only Raising Cane's, with drive-thru hours on its store page. Near Brookhurst and Adams, where Starbucks also runs a drive-thru at 10001 Adams.
Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America at Bella Terra
Bella Terra, 7777 Edinger Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 (Bank of America lists its Bella Terra financial center at 7731 Edinger Avenue)
Bella Terra's directory describes Bank of America as a full service, free standing banking facility and Wells Fargo as full service banking including drive up banking and 24-hour ATM service.
Taco Bell (five drive-thru restaurants)
7480 Edinger Avenue, 19051 Magnolia Street, 19002 Beach Boulevard, 17182 Beach Boulevard and 16431 Bolsa Chica Street, Huntington Beach, CA
Taco Bell's city page tags all five with Drive-Thru. Two are on Beach Boulevard.
Jack in the Box (five restaurants)
16311 Beach Boulevard, 18462 Beach Boulevard, 19090 Brookhurst Street, 15001 Edwards Street and 6042 Edinger Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA
Per Jack in the Box's Huntington Beach locator page.
Chipotle (Beach Blvd., Seacliff Village, Magnolia and Atlanta)
16241 Beach Boulevard (92647), 7101 Yorktown Avenue (92648) and 20962 Magnolia Street (92646), Huntington Beach, CA
Chipotle's store pages list in-store pickup and delivery; none lists a Chipotlane pickup lane. Chipotle names the Yorktown store Seacliff Village.
Starbucks drive-thrus, Wendy's and Del Taco
Nine Starbucks drive-thrus (including 7622 Edinger Avenue and 18922 Beach Boulevard), Wendy's at 16082 Goldenwest Street and 16401 Bolsa Chica Street, and Del Taco at 17501 Beach Boulevard and four other addresses
From Starbucks', Wendy's and Del Taco's own locators. The coffee page lists each Starbucks.
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Drive-through by district: Section 211.04 lets an eating and drinking establishment with a drive-through open by right in the CG and CV districts but not in CO. Along Beach and Edinger, the Beach and Edinger Corridors Specific Plan controls instead: its use charts permit drive-throughs in the Neighborhood Center and the Neighborhood Boulevard Segment, allow them in the Town Center Boulevard Segment only on Beach Boulevard or Edinger Avenue frontage, and do not permit them in the Town Center Core, Town Center Neighborhood, Neighborhood Parkway, Residential Parkway or Residential Transition areas. Bella Terra has its own specific plan.
02
Building a new pad: Section 211.05(Q) requires a Zoning Administrator conditional use permit for development of vacant land, additions of 10,000 sq ft or more or 50% or more of a building, and additions on sites within 300 feet of a residential zone or use. Any center within 300 feet of homes hits that trigger, so assume a hearing for a new pad there until Planning says otherwise.
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Stacking and parking in Section 231.04: a restaurant with more than 12 seats needs 1 space per 60 sq ft, or 1 per 100 sq ft on a site with three or more uses, plus queue space for 5 cars per drive-through service window. A bank needs 1 per 200 sq ft plus queue space for 5 cars per drive-up teller. A 3,000 sq ft QSR with one window on a multi-tenant center needs 30 spaces and a five-car queue.
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Auto service pads: Section 211.04 makes Service Stations a Planning Commission conditional use in CG and CV (with the standards of Section 230.32), Automobile Washing a Zoning Administrator conditional use in CG only, and vehicle repair a limited use in CG. None is allowed in CO. Section 231.04 parks a full-service car wash at 10 spaces, or 12 with fuel sales, and a self-service wash at 1.5 per stall.
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Traffic from Caltrans' 2023 AADT points: Beach Boulevard (SR-39) carried 65,100 to 66,500 vehicles a day at Talbert, 66,500 to 69,600 at Slater, 69,400 to 71,900 at Warner and 82,000 to 86,200 at the I-405, but only 32,800 to 42,600 at Adams Avenue, closer to the coast. Pacific Coast Highway (SR-1) carried about 37,000 to 46,000 a day between Brookhurst Street and Warner Avenue.
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Coastal and downtown pads: Section 211.08 requires a Coastal Development Permit in the coastal zone unless exempt, and provision J of Section 211.05 requires the entire ground floor of CV properties to be visitor-oriented. A PCH or Main Street pad needs an early read on both, and the Downtown Specific Plan governs Pacific City.
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.