The proposed Hollywood Cherokee apartments would rise from an approximately one-acre parking lot located just north of Hollywood Boulevard. Plans from Los Angeles-based Champion Real Estate call for a six-story building featuring 224 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments above nearly 1,000 square feet of ground-floor restaurant space. The project would include a wide array of residential amenities, including a swimming pool, a fitness center and a four-level garage with parking accommodations for up to 305 vehicles and 252 bicycles. Twenty-four of the project’s apartments would be set aside for very low-income residents, making less than 50% of the Los Angeles median income.
LOS ANGELES – Champion Real Estate Co. recently said that its spending goal for 2013 is $100 million in development acquisitions, and the firm has promoted Greg Beck to partner at the firm to find mixed-use properties to add to the portfolio.
HOLLYWOOD, CA-Mixed-use real estate developer and investor Champion Real Estate Co.
has purchased a 1.14-acre commercial parking lot at 1717 Cherokee and 1718 Las Palmas here. The company plans to continue operating the commercial parking lot while developing plans for turning it into a mixed-use project. While the exact purchase price was not revealed, industry sources say the property sold for approximately $10 million.
“We purchased it using cash and a short escrow,” Champion’s president Robert Champion
tells GlobeSt.com. “We are value investors. We believe Hollywood is a great value, and we believe the property we bought is a great value.”
A $20 million all-cash acquisition of a heavily vacant, partially redeveloped five-building, mixed-use complex in Hollywood, Calif. out of receivership shows just how much the commercial real estate market has progressed.
For the past two years, most of the assets that have traded hands have been core assets with high occupancies and longterm leases. This deal bucks the trend.
The project, located on a 2.76-acre site, includes three small office buildings, two multifamily structures and three parking lots. The site was purchased in 2007 and in the process of being redeveloped, but as the recession set in many of the tenants pulled out, leaving it with vacancies and no further entitlements.Read More
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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