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Commercial trades market · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

Appointment setting for commercial contractors in Los Angeles

Los Angeles-Long Beach has 32,541 businesses with 20 or more people on site across the categories commercial trades sell to. Here is how each trade's market looks, where the buildings are and when to call.

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Trades in Los Angeles

How each commercial trade's market looks in Los Angeles-Long Beach

Ranked by larger buildings per contractor against up to 100 markets (only markets with 10 or more contractors in a trade are ranked; n/r means not ranked). A higher rank means more buildings worth calling for every competitor working them.

TradeContractors1-yr changeLarger buildingsPer contractorRankEligible targetsPush months
Paving & Asphalt
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 180 +4 19,022 105.7 #1 · Year-round
Commercial Flooring
Largest buyer group: apartment and multifamily management companies
 82 -1 13,466 164.2 #1 · Year-round
Commercial Landscaping
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 2,115 +56 19,212 9.1 #3 · Year-round
Commercial Roofing
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 115 +9 19,709 171.4 #3 32,337 Year-round
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 753 +11 11,256 14.9 #9 16,081 Apr–Jun
Commercial Painting & Coatings
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 192 -2 20,304 105.8 #8 · Year-round
Commercial Electrical
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 1,016 +8 15,555 15.3 #10 · Year-round
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 2,526 +80 13,607 5.4 #12 10,053 Year-round
Commercial Construction
Largest buyer group: manufacturing companies
 1,660 -3 10,927 6.6 #18 32,337 Year-round
Fire Protection
Largest buyer group: restaurants
 365 -3 21,231 58.2 #22 · Year-round
Who each program calls

The industries each Los Angeles trade program prospects into

Every trade has its own target list. Here are the five largest target industries for each program in the Los Angeles-Long Beach metro, with local location counts; each guide lists all ten and who your SDR asks for.

Commercial Flooring

  1. Apartment and multifamily management companies3,928
  2. Ambulatory health care: physician, dental, outpatient and urgent care3,139
  3. Owner-occupied and owner-managed commercial buildings2,226
  4. Commercial property management firms1,390
  5. Senior living and skilled nursing1,156
All 10 industries in the Los Angeles guide →

Locations with 20 or more employees, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Property management and similar categories count every company, whatever its size.

What's Being Built

The projects reshaping Greater Los Angeles.

Verified, sourced, and current as of July 2026. We refresh this brief quarterly.

LA Convention Center Expansion

$2.6B
Under construction: Olympic-ready spring 2028, complete 2029

A 190,000 sq ft exhibit-hall expansion creating a contiguous 750,000+ sq ft hall, plus new meeting and multipurpose space.

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Metro D Line Subway Extension

$9.5B
Section 1 open (May 2026); Sections 2–3 targeted 2027

Three-section subway push to Westwood ahead of the Games, station finishes, systems, and life-safety work still ahead.

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LAX SkyLink People Mover & Modernization

Multi-billion program
System testing, opening 2026 ahead of the World Cup

A 2.25-mile, six-station automated people mover plus terminal modernization across the airport.

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Hospital Seismic Compliance Wave

$8.7B–$39.5B in LA County
Hard state deadline: January 1, 2030

All acute-care hospitals must be operational post-earthquake by 2030. 73 LA County campuses affected; Harbor-UCLA’s $1.7B replacement is already underway.

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SoFi Stadium & Hollywood Park

Largest urban mixed-use build in the western U.S.
World Cup pitch conversion underway; LA28 broadcast center planned

Eight FIFA World Cup matches in 2026, then the LA28 International Broadcast Center, atop a ~300-acre district still building out.

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UCLA Research Park

Value not disclosed
Build-outs begin 2026; first occupancies late 2027

A 1.3M sq ft immunology and quantum research campus in the former Westside Pavilion, lab-grade mechanical, electrical, and fire systems.

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Port of Los Angeles Capital Program

$302M capex (up 31% YoY)
FY2026/27, highest capital spend in a decade

Pedestrian bridge, rail expansion, and interchange work across the port complex.

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LA28 Olympics Program

Up to $4B in contracts
Contracting now, no new permanent venues

Temporary overlay across 15+ venues: structures, power, HVAC, and event-cycle services. City officials have publicly urged local firms to compete for this work.

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New construction added more than $12 billion to Los Angeles County’s 2026 assessment roll. Source →

Where the buyers cluster

The owners that anchor Los Angeles-Long Beach

Health systems, campuses, large employers and industrial parks hold the biggest concentrations of commercial buildings here. Each fact links to its source, checked 2026-10.

Health system

Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Pasadena, Los Angeles County

Kaiser Permanente lists 16 hospitals, 201 medical offices and 92,784 employees for its Pasadena-headquartered Southern California region, which includes the Metro Los Angeles and Orange County markets.

Hospitals and medical office buildings spread across Los Angeles and Orange counties each run HVAC plants, sprinkler systems and patient-area floors with daily cleaning needs.

HVACfire protectioncleaningflooringelectrical

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Health system

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

Wikipedia, with citations, says Cedars-Sinai has a staff of over 2,000 physicians and 10,000 employees.

A dense medical campus of patient towers, research buildings and parking structures carries heavy mechanical, electrical and life-safety maintenance.

HVACelectricalfire protectioncleaning

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Campus

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

UCLA's facts and figures page lists total enrollment of 46,678: 33,040 undergraduate and 13,638 graduate students.

The Westwood campus packs classroom, lab, residence hall and athletic buildings with parking structures that need cleaning, mechanical service and flooring work.

cleaningHVACflooringpainting

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Major employer

Disneyland Resort

Anaheim, Orange County

Wikipedia, citing the City of Anaheim's 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, lists Disneyland Resort as Anaheim's largest employer with 36,000 employees.

Theme parks, resort hotels, the Downtown Disney district and parking facilities operate daily, with heavy cleaning, painting, HVAC and paving needs.

cleaningpaintingHVACpavinglandscaping

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Industrial park

City of Industry

City of Industry, Los Angeles County

The City of Industry says its Industry Business Council represents over 3,000 businesses including manufacturing, wholesale, distribution and logistics.

A city built almost entirely for warehouses, plants and distribution centers means constant demand for roofing, dock paving, lighting and sprinkler work.

roofingpavingelectricalfire protectionconstruction

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Public owner

County of Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

The County's FY 2026-27 adopted budget is $54.2 billion, with 115K+ budgeted positions across 39 county departments.

County departments run hospitals, courthouses, libraries, parks, fire stations and office buildings across the county, each with mechanical, roofing and grounds needs.

HVACroofinglandscapingcleaningconstruction

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The local business base

Who the buyers are in Los Angeles-Long Beach

The business mix here tracks the national average closely. The fastest-growing categories over the past year: medical, dental and outpatient offices (+1958), restaurants (+733) and senior living and nursing (+340).

CategorySites with 20+All establishmentsvs. U.S. mix1-yr change
Restaurants
 9,35832,100 0.73x +733
Retail stores
 6,00938,838 0.61x +22
Manufacturing plants
 3,62814,403 0.71x -250
Wholesale distributors
 3,26427,945 0.71x -248
Medical, dental and outpatient offices
 3,13942,669 1.00x +1958
Grocery stores
 1,3476,219 0.67x +82
Senior living and nursing
 1,1563,716 0.72x +340
Bank and credit union offices
 7016,643 0.53x -220
Private K-12 schools
 6531,114 0.56x -10
Hotels
 5991,770 0.50x +58
Churches and religious organizations
 5614,387 0.65x -28
Auto dealerships
 4551,202 0.44x +13
Trucking companies
 4558,285 0.76x +133
Warehousing and distribution
 260955 0.67x +40
Apartment and residential property managers
 2393,928 1.00x +65
Hosting and data processing companies
 172847 0.27x -60
Hospitals
 155190 0.28x -5
Commercial property managers
 1101,390 1.02x +57
Colleges and universities
 104220 0.31x -4
Golf courses and country clubs
 100139 0.24x +5
Nonresidential building owners
 762,226 0.82x -19
Territory

Where the business sites are

Los Angeles County holds 72% of the metro's larger business sites, so most programs start there and cover the rest of the metro for larger accounts.

CountyLarger business sites
Los Angeles County23,382
Orange County9,130
Climate and timing

Los Angeles's year, month by month

Outdoor trades (roofing, paving, landscaping, exterior painting) work the months with lows of 40°F or above and sell in the months before. HVAC sells ahead of its heating and cooling peaks. Each trade page has its own calendar.

  1. Jan64° / 44°Outdoor season
  2. Feb65° / 44°Outdoor season
  3. Mar67° / 46°Outdoor season
  4. Apr71° / 49°Outdoor season
  5. May75° / 53°Outdoor season
  6. Jun81° / 58°Outdoor season
  7. Jul86° / 63°Outdoor season
  8. Aug88° / 63°Outdoor season
  9. Sep85° / 61°Outdoor season
  10. Oct78° / 55°Outdoor season
  11. Nov70° / 48°Outdoor season
  12. Dec64° / 43°Outdoor season
Working in California

Contractor licensing in California

CSLB licenses contractors by classification, with a B General Building license and C specialty licenses for individual trades. A license is required for any job of $1,000 or more (labor and materials), or any job that needs a permit or uses hired workers, since January 1, 2025.

Trade-by-trade rules are on each trade page. Confirm with Contractors State License Board (CSLB). Checked 2026-09-30.

Hiring locally

What an in-house SDR costs in Los Angeles

Before you hire a sales development rep in Los Angeles, price the whole job, not just the salary. Here is the local pay for sales representatives, and what a first year really costs once you add commission, payroll taxes and benefits, tools, recruiting and the manager time it takes to coach them.

  • $79,450median pay for a sales rep in the Los Angeles metro
  • $52,250 to $104,230middle half of local pay (25th to 75th percentile)
  • 50,470people in the role locally, all competing for the same hires

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025. Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services and travel (SOC 41-3091).

In-house SDR, first year$144,663
Abstrakt Growth program, full-time SDR, 12 months$102,000

In-house adds $15,000 commission, 25% payroll taxes and benefits, $500/month tools, $5,000 recruiting and 4 manager hours a week at $75/hour, before ramp time or turnover. Abstrakt includes the SDR, management, tools and data.

Get a Los Angeles program quote →Run the full numbers
How Abstrakt works in Los Angeles

Outsourced appointment setting, one trade per market

Abstrakt's U.S.-based business development reps build a Los Angeles target list around your trade, service area and ideal buildings, work it by phone, email, LinkedIn and direct mail, and book meetings with the people who sign. We will not run the same program for a direct competitor in your territory.

Selling into California? See the California outbound calling rules: do-not-call lists, calling hours and registration, so you know what a program here has to handle.

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Los Angeles commercial trades, answered

Does Abstrakt set appointments for commercial contractors in Los Angeles?+

Yes. Abstrakt runs outsourced appointment setting for commercial trades across the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro: our U.S.-based business development reps call the buildings, qualify the opportunity and book meetings with the person who signs. We run one program per trade per market.

Which commercial trades have the most room to grow in Los Angeles?+

Measured by larger buildings per contractor against the 100 markets we track (where a trade has at least 10 local contractors), paving & Asphalt (#1), commercial Flooring (#1) and commercial Landscaping (#3) rank best in Los Angeles.

What kinds of businesses are concentrated in Los Angeles?+

Los Angeles-Long Beach's business mix tracks the national average closely, with no category markedly over-represented.

Which counties make up the Los Angeles market?+

The metro covers Los Angeles County and Orange County. Los Angeles County holds 72% of the larger business sites.

Nearby markets

Trades in Los Angeles

How it works

Sources and method