COMPANY MISSION

While others build projects, CHA builds community.

CHA is dedicated to providing innovative, high-quality in-fill housing at a competitive price in California's cities.  The company is on the cutting edge of supplying multi-family housing to the target areas with growing population in California.

CHA is reintroducing the courtyard-housing building type that was popular in the 1920's and 1930’s.  This type of housing is built around a lush, garden setting, taking advantage of California's warm climate.  Such housing enables interaction among residents and allows easy access to the natural beauty surrounding them.

CHA believes that housing should be designed with residents in mind, with sensitivity to the architecture and landscape of the project area.  In fact, CHA encourages community participation to ensure a supportive and successful entitlement process.

Market research shows that an increasing number of home buyers desire and are willing to pay a premium for housing that combines quality with style and character.  CHA is targeting this market niche in order to deliver both quality housing and substantial investor returns.

CHA was established in 1997 to help serve the tremendous growth market niche of transit related development and urban living in small downtown.  These are “transit villages,” as CHA refers to as its core business. 

Historically, in America, real estate developers were referred to as community builders.  These were typically outstanding members of their respective communities, i.e. J.C. Nichols in Kansas City, the Janss family in Los Angeles, or Rouse in Baltimore, who cared deeply about the cities where they lived.  They built based on what the town needed, not what necessarily would make the most money.  Of course, these gentlemen made fortunes, but it was for the right reasons - thoughtfulness, design and vision.  Witness the Country Club Plaza District of Kansas City, which remains 75 years later, the preeminent retail center in America.

CHA’s goal is to become the premier “community builder” in America in the 21st century.

Why CHA?  We bring a sensitivity and human quality to neighborhood building that others totally miss.  The specialization (apartments, big-box retail, powercenter, suburban single-family) and corporatization of real estate that has devastated our cities and rural areas remains fixed on the automobile and suburban sprawl as its model. The corporatization of real estate has led to profit-only types running these companies.  Building community does not appear on a spreadsheet.  It is in the heart – and when you build with passion and quality, you create superior homes and neighborhoods.