HOLLYWOOD-An affiliate of West Los Angeles-based Champion Real Estate Co. has acquired a fivebuilding, mixed-use complex on a 2.76-acre site that is planned as part of a transit-oriented development featuring retail, restaurants and luxury apartments. The property sold for $20 million in an all-cash transaction, according to receiver Taylor B. Grant, who heads Newport Beach, CA-based California Real Estate Receiverships. CalRER handled the sale on behalf of the lender, US Bank.Read More
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 less than it was 3 or 4 years ago, there are a number of large, healthy tenants who have realized now is the time to get into California’s wealthy infill markets that used to have big barriers to entry.
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, while at the same time
the industry will continue to deleverage.”Read More
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 and his financial partners will co‐invest in all deals and are already in escrow on a couple of properties. Champion has hired Steve Boss formerly CEO and founder of Afton Property Investment Corp as the firm’s new managing director of retail investment and development hired Steve Boss, formerly CEO and founder of Afton Property Investment Corp., as the firm s new managing director of retail investment and development to spearhead the initiative. Read More
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