A junior-anchor box on Hemet’s retail spine, with the hard parts already built
Apex Real Estate Services / KW Commercial presents a ±15,000 SF retail space for lease at 2255 E Florida Ave, Hemet — an inline junior-anchor bay in an established, Family Dollar-anchored center on East Florida Avenue (State Route 74), the primary retail corridor of Hemet and the San Jacinto Valley. Asking $0.85 per square foot per month, NNN.
The space sits just east of the signalized Florida Avenue and Yale Street intersection with a deep, front-loaded shared parking field, a multi-tenant pylon sign on Florida Avenue, and rear service access. Concrete tilt-up construction with a glass storefront under the center’s tile-mansard façade and an open showroom floorplate — a footprint suited to discount and off-price, furniture and home, fitness, specialty grocery, medical, and service users who need a large-format box with parking and signage in place.
Large-format second-generation retail is scarce on the corridor. Recent leasing along East Florida Avenue has been dominated by 1,000–2,600 SF shop space at $1.00–$1.10 per square foot (CoStar, 2024–2026), leaving few options for users who need 10,000–20,000 SF. At $0.85 NNN, 2255 E Florida delivers attainable big-box economics on the valley’s busiest retail street.
Left — photograph, September 1, 2026: the space as it stands today, with the outgoing furniture tenant in occupancy. Right — AI-rendered: that same photograph with the tenant’s merchandise digitally removed, so the floorplate, ceiling height, lighting grid and column spacing can be read clearly. No architectural feature, finish, dimension or opening has been added, moved or altered. It is a visualization aid, not a representation of delivery condition; delivery condition is to be confirmed with the listing brokers.
Why this box works
Florida Avenue frontage & traffic
Direct frontage and visibility on E. Florida Ave (Hwy 74), carrying 21,300–24,000 vehicles per day at Yale Street per Caltrans — just east of the signal, with convenient in-and-out from the intersection.
Family Dollar & Deal Hunterz co-tenancy
Daily-needs anchors on either side of the space drive repeat visits and cross-shopping across the shared front parking field.
Pylon signage & front parking
A multi-tenant pylon sign on Florida Avenue plus building fascia signage under the mansard, with an expansive front-loaded surface lot and multiple curb cuts.
Open floorplate, rear loading
A ±15,000 SF open showroom floorplate with a wide glass storefront and a rear service door and loading area — second-generation retail ready for a new user’s fixturing.
East Florida Avenue, the valley’s retail corridor
Florida Avenue carries Hemet’s highest concentration of daily-needs retail. Within a half mile of the site: Family Dollar and Deal Hunterz on-site, True Value adjacent to the west at Hemet Plaza, McDonald’s, Jack in the Box, El Patron, Bank of America, Provident Bank, and USA Gasoline across the street. Planet Fitness, Grocery Outlet, and Hemet Global Medical Center sit roughly a half mile to the west, and Stater Bros. about a mile east. The Walmart Supercenter, ALDI, Walgreens, and Cardenas cluster is a mile and a half north on San Jacinto Avenue.
Hemet anchors the San Jacinto Valley, with roughly 170,000 residents within five miles of the site. State Route 79 connects north to Interstate 10 at Beaumont and south toward Temecula; State Route 74 runs west to Interstate 215 at Perris and Menifee.
The space, in context
The available bay is outlined on the site plan below, between Family Dollar and Deal Hunterz on the shared front parking field. The trade-area map places the center among the corridor’s retailers within a half mile. Both exhibits are also in the brochure.
Building outlines and demising are approximate and not a survey. Retailer marks identify neighboring businesses only.
Built for users who need 15,000 square feet
C-1 Neighborhood Commercial permits a broad range of retail, restaurant, personal-service, office, and medical uses; assembly and education uses may require City approval. Tenants should verify their specific use with the City of Hemet.
Who shops here
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2019–2023 5-Year at block-group level, area-weighted to each ring (Apex Deal Analyzer trade-area engine). Medians are population-weighted estimates.
Space & property specifications
Rate quoted NNN. See disclaimer for exclusions.
