Article: CIM Group quietly compiles an L.A. retail empire.(real estate firm)

Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, Old Pasadena, downtown Brea and Hollywood Boulevard.

What these seemingly disparate shopping districts have in common is a Westwood real estate firm that over the past four years has quietly built a small retail empire.

Since CIM Group LLC started collecting buildings in rundown but reviving areas, it has amassed a portfolio of more than $200 million worth of property encompassing over a million square feet. The firm is the largest landlord on the Third Street Promenade, with 13 buildings and 203,000 square feet of existing properties and others under development.

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