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Apartments planned near Hollywood & Highland
Champion Real Estate pays $20 million for several parcels of land, saying it will build a $100-million apartment and retail development there.

 

 

Champion Buys Distressed Site for TOD
HOLLYWOOD-An affiliate of West Los Angeles-based Champion Real Estate Co. has acquired a five-building, mixed-use complex on a 2.76-acre site...

 

 

Champion Purchase Illustrates Growing Appetite for Risk
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.

 

 

What about Bob?
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.

 

 

Retail Real Estate Rally In Cali
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.

 

 

Shopping Centers Today
Seasoned execs share some of the mistakes they made starting out, and how the errors made they better.

 

 

Breaking News $500m Champion Fund Seeks Western Retail
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.

 

 

Conditions Stabilize, But Large Leases Remain Rare
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.