In-N-Out Burger is coming to the City of Commerce
Work is progressing on a new In-N-Out Burger in the City of Commerce.
Construction is underway on a gleaming white building on Telegraph Avenue. The project is part of a long-term goal of creating a retail and entertainment corridor in the city.
Efforts to bring In-N-Out to Commerce go back to at least 2020, according to city council and planning commission minutes. And negotiations over the address, 6233 Telegraph Road, have frequently appeared on city council agendas under closed session.
The land was caught up in a scandal involving former City Manager Edgar Cisneros, who is serving two years’ probation in a bribery scheme. Cisneros admitted to federal investigators that he took bribes for renting out city-owned empty lots.
“After years of planning, coordination, and behind-the-scenes work between the city, developers, and project engineer, construction is officially underway,” the city announced in an Instagram video posted in December.
In-N-Out recently added the drive-thru to the “opening soon” page of its website. It lists nine projects. This is the only one in California, but In-N-Out has confirmed two other local projects are in the works. They are in the Canopy, a new shopping center under construction at Irvine’s Great Park Neighborhoods, and Town Center at The Preserve, a mixed-use development in Chino.
Projects can be in the permit pipeline for years before they make it to In-N-Out’s opening soon page. Once construction begins, it usually takes eight or nine months before a restaurant is ready to open, according to a statement from Denny Warnick, chief operating officer, on the status of the Commerce project.
In-N-Out has 436 restaurants in 10 states. The Irvine-based chain lists 289 locations in California on its website.
Information: in-n-out.com
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This story was originally published May 28, 2026 at 4:06 PM.