Chapa Commercial Group

05/25/2026

05/03/2026

Great event out in the Imperial Valley this weekend.

A big thank you to the Imperial Valley Rotary for putting together such a well organized tournament in support of scholarships across Imperial Valley schools. Proud to support something that gives back and creates opportunities for students in the community.

Appreciate Mary Salazar for the invitation and for all the work she does as part of the Rotary golf board. Events like this don’t happen without people like her and the entire board behind the scenes.

Had the opportunity to play alongside Timothy Kelley of Imperial Valley Economic Development at IVEDC who continues to do a great job promoting investment and growth in the region. Also great to be out there with Winkler, a strong local leader in lending and real estate, and our young friend Cain Cuellar, a junior in high school and part of the Imperial Valley golf team. Always good to see the next generation getting involved.

The Imperial Valley continues to show why it is a market to watch.

04/26/2026

Chapa Commercial Group is pleased to announce the successful closing of a standalone retail property located in Cerritos, California.

This transaction required strong coordination among all parties, particularly as challenges emerged toward the final stages of escrow. Through consistent communication and a commitment to ex*****on, the deal was successfully brought to a close.

We would like to thank Stewart Title - Castro (Blackford), Coast Title - Trujillo, and East West Bank for their professionalism and partnership throughout the process.

Chapa Commercial Group continues to focus on delivering results across complex commercial real estate transactions throughout Southern California.

03/10/2026

Just about 70 days into 2026 and the Coachella Valley has already hosted two world class sporting events.

First was played across courses including , bringing top PGA players and visitors from around the world. Now the valley is hosting the at the , one of the most recognized tennis tournaments in the world and the second largest tennis tournament in the United States.

Most people know the Coachella Valley for golf, tennis, and the famous music festivals like Coachella

But for real estate investors, developers, and acquisition teams, this region is becoming one of the most overlooked opportunities in Southern California.

Opportunities exist across retail, multifamily, industrial, residential, and mixed-use development. For those looking to enter growth markets early, the Coachella Valley deserves serious attention before larger institutional capital begins to move in more aggressively.

I have been in the Coachella Valley for about 25 years, and it has been incredible to watch the growth. What was once viewed mainly as a seasonal destination has steadily evolved into a growing economic region with increasing tourism, population growth, and development activity.

Compared to coastal markets in Southern California, the valley still offers something that is becoming harder to find.

Opportunity.

If you are exploring opportunities in Southern California and want to better understand the Coachella Valley market, feel free to reach out with a message or DM. I would be happy to share insights on the area.

02/16/2026

Some of the most overlooked real estate opportunities in Southern California are properties with environmental layers, including former industrial sites and former landfills that now fall under brownfield oversight.

A strong example of what is possible is the work done by Stonemont Financial Group. Their projects show how complex sites can move forward when early environmental due diligence, structured planning, and open coordination with public agencies are part of the approach. These are not simple sites, but they often become some of the most productive once the path is clear.

That same forward looking mindset exists in the City of Carson. The city deserves real credit for how it approaches challenging properties, including former landfills and environmentally impacted industrial parcels. Under the leadership of assistant city manager Dr Robert Lennox, James Nguyen in Special Programs, and planning manager McKina Alexander, Carson has earned a reputation for being proactive and genuinely business friendly. Their combined effort helps reduce uncertainty and allows these properties to move toward productive use rather than remaining stalled.

What stands out in the work of Stonemont and the efforts within the City of Carson is the shared belief that these properties are not obsolete. They are opportunities. With vision, structure, and the right environmental strategy, these sites can be repositioned into long term assets that support the community.

Brownfield programs are a larger part of the Southern California real estate landscape, and understanding how they function helps owners, developers, and cities unlock value on sites that might otherwise stay unused.

Let’s put these properties to work.

01/23/2026

AI is introducing a new conversation into Southern California’s industrial market around energy. Not just more megawatts, but firm and continuous baseload power for high density compute workloads. As models grow, data centers are beginning to draw electricity at levels that exceed previous commercial uses.

We are now watching major tech firms move upstream into energy procurement. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI have signed long term nuclear power agreements in other regions to secure reliable power for AI compute. Meta recently signed a 20 year nuclear contracts in the Midwest and aligned with advanced reactor developers for potential future capacity. Moves like this signal that energy procurement could become a strategic function for compute operators.

In California, new in-state nuclear development is restricted under current law and small modular reactors remain pre-commercial in the United States. Because of that, nuclear role in supporting California data center growth may come through imported firm power via transmission corridors and long term procurement from out-of-state markets rather than new in-state generation.

Institutional capital and industrial owners appear to be adapting as well. Blackstone, Prologis and others have been allocating into energy infrastructure and transmission-adjacent strategies tied to data center growth. These deals increasingly resemble blended infrastructure and real estate transactions that involve utilities, operators and municipalities.

Being Southern California born and raised and having spent over 30 years in real estate and finance, I have watched the market transition through multiple cycles. Today, as a commercial real estate professional actively studying this space, it is clear that conversations around buildings and logistics are beginning to intersect with power, interconnection and AI compute.

In the 2000s the Inland Empire scaled along port and rail logistics. In the 2010s fulfillment followed ecommerce. There are early indications that in the late 2020s and beyond, real estate developing will follow power.

If that plays out, the question for Southern California becomes not whether data centers will chase power, but where the next AI data center clusters could form as firm energy supply and transmission capacity evolve.

12/17/2025

Our Gridley Road listing in Cerritos is now in escrow. Well located asset in a highly sought after Cerritos submarket.

12/09/2025

California’s housing shortage does not need a perfect number to prove it exists. Different agencies estimate the gap anywhere from 800,000 units to more than 3 million, but even one unit short is one too many. Today we are short by hundreds of thousands at minimum, and the effects are hard to ignore, they are lived every day by working families, seniors and young professionals who are being priced out of the communities they serve.

Housing production has lagged behind both population and employment growth for decades. Zoning restrictions, long entitlement timelines and rising costs have kept delivery from catching up. When supply falls behind demand, affordability erodes, commutes widen and community stability weakens. This is not just a market imbalance. It is a structural gap with real human weight.

The next five years will matter. If capital, development capacity and leadership align, we can move toward housing that supports workforce stability instead of pushing it away.

One of my missions in 2026 is to work with investors, developers and nonprofit organizations who want to add more affordable multifamily housing to California. One project at a time. One partnership at a time. Every completed unit makes a difference.

If you are active in affordable housing or want to be part of the solution, I welcome the connection and conversation.

12/03/2025

Under contract on our Heacock Street listing in Moreno Valley.
Big thanks to everyone who reached out. More to come.