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Torrance, CA - November 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- One of Mexico’s most prestigious oceanfront homes has come on the market for $28 million. The land, which was originally owned by former Mexican president Luis Echeverria, is aptly named Villa Vista Magica, capturing the magic of the estate and its magnificent views. As a private hide-away, the estate sits on 15-acres of its own private peninsula nestled between a tropical forest and the Pacific Ocean, with 1,000 meters of beachfront.

Torrance, CA - October 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Huff + Gooden Architects have been selected as lead design architects and HGA Architects and Engineers (HGA) as the executive architect for the expansion and renovation of the California African American Museum (CAAM), located in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. The $67.3 million project will include 77,000 square feet of new construction, as well as a renovation of 26,000 square feet of the existing museum. The project has completed the design phase and is awaiting funding for future phases of work.

LOS ANGELES, CA - October 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The University of Southern California Ross Minority Program in Real Estate, a professional training program that teaches real estate fundamentals to individuals interested in creating positive change in emerging communities, is accepting applications for its winter session, which begins Jan. 19.

Torrance, CA - October 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, the nation’s largest broker-owned commercial brokerage firm, has completed the purchase and sale of an 11,200-square-foot industrial building at 15311-15323 Pipeline Lane in Huntington Beach, Calif. The 100-percent leased building sold for $1.2 million or $107.14/square foot. The building was marketed by another firm for a year. Lee & Associates sold the building within 60 days of listing the property for an all-cash close.

Los Angeles, CA - October 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Construction has begun on HGA Architects and Engineers’ redesign of Los Angeles City College’s Clausen Hall, a 60,000-square-foot facility for the school’s music department at the 78-year-old Los Angeles campus. HGA’s $13 million modernization and systems upgrade will expand the college’s popular music department with a renovated recital hall and new lecture hall while creating a visually striking entrance to the campus. The project, due for a 2012 completion, is an example of HGA’s continuing core expertise in designing visual and performing arts facilities.

Torrance, CA - October 19, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, the nation’s largest broker-owned commercial brokerage firm, has completed the $1.95 million sale of a 7,068-square-foot, single-story, pre-school facility located at 10 Mareblu in Aliso Viejo, Calif. Senior Vice President Allen Basso of Lee’s Irvine office handled the transaction.

San Francisco, CA - October 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Dave Alpert, a principal of HGA Architects and Engineers’ San Francisco office, will receive the Volunteer of the Year Award given by Golden Gate University (GGU), of which he is an alumnus (MBA ’00). Alpert will receive his honor — given to those who achieve excellence in their chosen field and have made a difference in their community — at a luncheon Oct. 26 at the Four Seasons hotel in San Francisco.

Anaheim, CA - October 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- General contractor C.W. Driver has formed a new independent company under its corporate umbrella that will focus on smaller-scale projects — a new foray for Southern California’s leading construction firm.

Torrance, CA - October 10, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mountain Real Estate Capital (MREC) (www.mountainrecapital.com) announces the closing of a new investment with Classic Homes of Colorado Springs to develop Promontory Pointe, a 267-lot community located in Monument, Colo. The transaction represents MREC’s first investment in the Colorado Springs housing market. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Torrance, CA - October 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, one of the largest national commercial real estate brokerage firms, has closed a $6.85 million sale of 1.76 acres of coastal land located at 329 & 343 S. Highway and 101/120 & 128 Dahlia Dr. in Solana Beach, Calif.

Torrance, CA - October 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, one of the largest national commercial real estate providers with regional expertise, has closed a $4 million sales transaction for a 45,560-square-foot industrial building located at 1425 Moonstone Street in Brea, Calif.

The Madison, WI - October 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- office of Lee & Associates, one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate firms, has completed $2.8 million of leases at The Shoppes at Hartford; a 24,000-square-foot retail center in Hartford, Wis. Steve Doran and Todd Waller represented the ownership group on all transactions.

La Jolla, CA - October 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The home of famed scientist Dr. Roger Revelle, father of the global warming theory, has been re-introduced to the market by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage’s Linda Marrone in the Barber Tract, a well known historic neighborhood in La Jolla for $12.5 million. Originally built by Grace Scripps Clark in 1922 – whose father was the founder of the Detroit Evening News and niece of La Jolla philanthropist, Ellen Browning Scripps – the five-bedroom, four-bathroom home currently owned by the remaining Revelle family, was one of the first beachfront homes built in Barber Tract. Clark sold the home to her daughter, Ellen Clark Revelle, and her husband, Dr. Roger Revelle, in 1947.

Torrance, CA - October 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) WHAT: it’s happening in the world of development in Los Angeles? Join us in hearing from some of our top developers for an insider’s perspective on the marketplace: where it is and where it’s going.

Torrance, CA - September 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, one of the largest national commercial real estate providers with regional expertise, has closed a $3 million sale (5 percent cap rate) on a 3,500-square-foot In-N-Out Burger restaurant, a regional chain of fast food restaurants in the western U.S., located at 12890 Gregg Court, in Poway, Calif.

Los Angeles, CA - September 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The University of Southern California Ross Minority Program in Real Estate, a professional training program that teaches real estate fundamentals to individuals interested in creating positive change in emerging communities, is accepting applications for its winter session that begins Jan. 19 and continues for four weekends. The application deadline is Oct. 1.

Torrance, CA - September 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- In another move signaling Lee & Associates’ rapid growth in the Midwest, the firm appoints Chris Etmanczyk as vice president of Lee’s Madison, Wis., office. Etmanczyk’s appointment is the latest in a string of personnel moves reflecting the expansion of Lee & Associates, one of the largest commercial real estate firms in the country.

September 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, the nation’s largest broker-owned commercial brokerage firm, has closed on the $9 million sale of a 131,420-square-foot industrial property at 19161 E. Walnut Dr., in City of Industry, Calif.

San Diego, CA - September 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- C.W. Driver’s work building the Ramona Library in the San Diego town has resulted in the 21,000-square-foot structure being granted LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. C.W. Driver, a premier builder serving the Western U.S. since 1919, left its environmentally conscious mark on the Tuscan and Southwestern-style building, which is the second-largest library in San Diego County. It opened this spring and is four-times larger than the original library it replaced.

Santa Ana, CA - September 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Brickman Group, one of the nation’s largest commercial landscaping companies, marks the next step in deepening its Southern California presence by establishing a Southern California regional office in Santa Ana, Calif. The transition comes on the heels of Brickman’s purchase of Los Angeles-based Dworsky Landscaping this summer — a move that cemented the 72-year-old firm’s entrance into the Los Angeles/Orange County market