Bob Champion will always have at least one friend, a chubby pal who greets visitors at Champion Real Estate Cos.’ offices in West LA. But we don’t think he’ll have trouble finding more, what with a new $500M program to acquire distressed assets. View article

While the number of retail properties trading is low, what is trading is going for top dollar. Retailers, meanwhile, are infilling better locations in the Golden State. While activity is down overall in California retail real estate, the climate itself is vibrant and poised for a comeback. Although the volume of leases getting down is [...]

Bob Champion doesn’t use the word recovery. Instead, the president of Los Angeles-based Champion Real Estate Co. sees today’s conditions as drifting back down toward earth. “The industry is not ‘recovering,’” he told CPE. “Instead, it is coming to grips with the re- ality that growth will be very slow, only occurring in specific niches, [...]

LOS ANGELES‐ Longtime retail developer and operator Robert Champion of Champion Real Estate Co. is looking to acquire $500 million in retail real estate in the Western US in the next three years, GlobeSt.com has learned exclusively. Champion, who has not been buying or building new projects since about 2006, tells GlobeSt.com that his company [...]

Seasoned execs share some of the mistakes they made starting out, and how the errors made they better. View article