O U R   S T O R Y

Centre Urban Real Estate is a privately held, vertically integrated commercial real estate development, investment management, and operating platform focused on innovative and sustainable place-making solutions. Our core strategy is to develop, own, and operate real estate through our investment management platform. To complement our investment strategies, Centre Urban provides real estate advisory, property management, and brokerage services through its group of companies. Originally founded in 2000, Centre Urban is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Long Beach and Honolulu. 

Centre Urban's primary focus is in the multifamily and commercial mixed-use asset classes, with a secondary focus on select healthcare assets, in select supply-constraint, urban infill markets where we can achieve superior risk-adjusted returns. Centre Urban excels with challenging real estate opportunities, concentrating on non-traditional and under-performing properties where value can be maximized through innovative thinking. With over $500 million of full-cycle real estate projects completed and over a century of combined principal experience, our existing portfolio now includes several multifamily and commercial properties located in Southern California. 

Our Focus

Multifamily Residential

Acquisition
Value-Add
Entitlement
Development
Investment Sales
Asset Management

Single-Family Residential

Entitlement
Development
​Investment Sales

Commercial Mixed-Use

Entitlement
Development
Investment Sales
Asset Management
Leasing

A C Q U I S I T I O N   C R I T E R I A

Asset Type	Multifamily Residential Single-Family Residential (+20 units) Commercial Mixed-Use Hospitality Unentitled Land
Market	​Southern California, Hawai'i
​Investment Strategy	Direct Acquisition Joint-Venture Land/Asset Contribution ​Defaulted/Matured Notes Fee Entitlement and/or Development
Risk Profile	​​Value-Add to Opportunistic (including entitlement and development)
​Hold Period	2 to 10 years

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F E A T U R E D   P R O J E C T

Pierson Plaza Phase I

Pierson Plaza is a 38,084 square-foot office building located in Riverside County, originally developed in 2017 as part of a larger planned development which included community retail. Centre Urban acquired, designed, entitled, and constructed Pierson Plaza as a build-to-suit tailored for the Riverside County’s Department of Public Social Services with tenant improvements costing nearly $3.0 million and ultimately stabilized the asset by signing the County to a 10-year lease. Centre Urban successfully sold Pierson Plaza for $11.3 million or $296 per square foot in 2019.

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T R A C K   R E C O R D

Institutional Experience. Entrepreneurial Mindset.

$100+ million

Assets Under Management

$570+ million

Total Transaction Value

100+ years

Combined Principal Experience

Mission Statement

Our mission is to create, own, and operate innovative and sustainable properties with excellence, accountability, and passion. We cultivate outstanding relationships with our investors, clients, lenders, tenants, community stakeholders, consultants, vendors, and team members. We collaborate, listen, and carefully consider the perspectives of our partners and of the communities where we own and operate. We value long term prosperity of all our partners while doing our part as positive stewards of our properties, communities, and world.

I N V E S T I N G

​with Centre Urban

For over 20 years, the principals of Centre Urban Real Estate have successfully executed on residential and commercial property investments for its direct account in Southern California and throughout the United States. We have notably been successful with structuring successful joint-ventures with investors, owners, co-developers, and public-private partnerships with public agencies. Centre Urban has been able to acquire and develop on under performing or under utilized real estate properties and, through intelligent restructuring and industry expertise, has been able to successfully reposition over 30 major real estate assets.​

Centre Urban is currently exploring new acquisition and development opportunities throughout California and Hawai'i through the following investment strategies:

• Multifamily: Seeking out acquisition and development opportunities where Centre Urban can unlock value through a number of strategies, including effective management, asset rehabilitation, repositioning, adaptive reuse, redevelopment, and creative recapitalization. 
• Commercial: Sourcing, acquiring, and developing various types of commercial real estate including office, retail, and mixed-use assets. Centre Urban has especially had success developing mixed-use and healthcare assets in Southern California. 
• Affordable and Workforce Housing: Centre Urban will seek opportunities to partner with non-profit affordable housing developers on Affordable multifamily development projects. While Centre Urban does not focus on tax-credit or grant applications, we provide a valuable resource as a key partner in the entitlement, pre-development, construction, stabilization, and operations of any Affordable project. In any jurisdiction where zoning and entitlement laws allow, Centre Urban will pursue workforce and moderate income housing development opportunities. 

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