Empty cable reels picked up in Huntington Park

What gets made in Huntington Park

Huntington Park is a compact, mostly residential city just south of Vernon, with industry along its edges near Alameda Street and Slauson Avenue and a busy commercial spine on Pacific Boulevard. It shares the Alameda Corridor's west side with Vernon and Walnut Park, so the truck that clears Vernon is minutes away.

The city won a $25 million state grant to build about 50 miles of its own fibre network. Fibre comes on reels, plywood or nailed and usually 36 to 60 inches, and builds like this empty them at staging yards as the work moves street by street.

Pacific Boulevard is one of the busiest shopping streets in southeast Los Angeles County, and its shops, along with the homes around them, keep small electrical contractors busy with service upgrades and rewires. Those jobs empty small one-way reels of building wire and service cable, a few at a time. Combined with the city's fibre build, that makes Huntington Park a steady source of small and medium reels rather than truckloads of large ones.

Where Huntington Park's empty reels come from

City fibre construction

Fibre and conduit reels, often plywood, 36 to 60 inches, at staging yards as streets are finished.

Small electrical contractors

Shops working on homes and shops along Pacific Boulevard bring back 24 to 30 inch reels.

Industrial edge

Plants and warehouses near Alameda Street empty nailed reels during upgrades.

How the Alameda Corridor and Vernon run reaches Huntington Park

Huntington Park is a short detour off the Alameda Corridor run: in from Slauson or Florence, out to the 710. Residential streets are narrow, so stage reels where a flatbed can stop safely, on a commercial frontage or inside a yard. Six reels or fewer go on as a ride-along.

Other stops on the Alameda Corridor and Vernon lane: Compton, Vernon, Commerce. Reels from Huntington Park can share a deck with any of them.