Representative Experience

• Represented a developer in a 35-acre shopping center redevelopment project in Pomona, California.  Negotiated redevelopment agreements, subdivision and entitlement approvals, drafted land use restriction and operating documents, and negotiated and documented pad sales, ground leases and spaces leases.
• Represented the developer of luxury 64-lot, 100-acre residential subdivision in Beverly Hills. Counseled on land use planning, subdivision approvals, entitlements, California Department of Real Estate subdivision sales approvals and documentation, negotiation of major, multiple-lot sale transactions, private street approval and off-site disputes with third parties.
• Represent Community Dynamics, a developer of multifamily affordable and market rate housing projects throughout Southern California.  Handling negotiations with the City of Palm Desert on agreements and entitlements for a multiphase project on city-owned land.
• Represented Costco Wholesale Corporation in the preparation of environmental impact reports, related entitlements, zone changes, conditional use permits, general plan amendments, specific plans, and defending against litigation challenging the environmental reviews for a number of facilities. The facilities have included exurban, suburban and urban in-fill projects, some of which were financed entirely by private funds and some of which were financed by public-private partnerships. Our work has also included Costco’s massive automated depot facilities, as well as over 125 stores and a variety of ancillary facilities.
• Represented Monrovia Nursery Company in the entitlement and master planning of a 1,250- dwelling unit, new urbanist community on one of the largest remaining undeveloped parcels in the San Gabriel Valley. We are providing tactical expertise in successfully defeating the referendum challenge.
• Representing a developer in the entitlement process, general and specific plans, CEQA regulations and zoning for a 336-acre, mixed-use development in Chino Hills, California.
• Counseled Sunrise Desert Partners and Indian Ridge Land LLC on the development of the large master-planned community, Indian Ridge Country Club in Palm Desert, California.
• Represented PW LLC in a one million-square-foot, mixed-use/office/hotel project in Burbank, California.
• Represented El Segundo Media Center in 1.8 million-square-foot, technology office campus.

For more information, please contact Bob Baradaran, Chair of the Real Estate Group.