1964 – LIFE ONE: Our five acre site was originally part of a much larger facility built in the early 1960s by Aero Jet General Corporation under a USAF contract to develop a Nuclear Fusion Rocket Engine. The project was under the direction of Doctor Edward Teller, the father of the atomic bomb. Our building, which was one of many, was the rocket engine test stand. It stood almost 100 feet high and towered over the support buildings and Walnut orchards. It was built with steel columns and supported a 100 ton bridge crane at the top; the sides were windowless and made of corrugated sheet metal. In the late sixties with the Vietnam War continuing, the USAF cancelled the Aerojet contract and the building and land parcels were sold off, with the exception of the rocket test building, which nobody seemed to want.

1980 – LIFE TWO: In the mid-seventies, John Moore, an engineer and entrepreneur, was looking for space to expand his newly formed engineering business, Electro Test Inc. John checked with a fellow Cal structural engineer and found that the abandoned building structure could easily accommodate five floors and be made into an office building. With the help of Wells Fargo loan, he developed the abandoned rocket engine test building by doubling the floor area, adding four floors in the interior and glass windows on the exterior. The building remained an office building for 30 years with tenants such as PG&E, DuPont, ETI, CenCal Insurance and the Crow Canyon Country Club Homeowners Assn., among others. In 2008, with the US economy in a downward spiral, many of the larger tenants were forced to consolidate their facilities and terminate their leases.