Article: Hotel sold for $62 million to fund shopping center. (Hotel Sofitel Ma Maison, West Los Angeles)

Hotel sold for $62 million to fund shopping center

Developer builds war chest to `control his own destiny'

Santa Monica-based developer Sheldon Gordon has sold his 311-room Hotel Sofitel Ma Maison in West Los Angeles for about $62.5 million to a syndicate of French hotel concerns, the Business Journal has learned.

The sale, along with Gordon's sale in June of a 700,000-square-foot shopping mall in San Fracisco, has endowed the developer with a sizable war chest.

That war chest will be spent on developing a major new regional shopping mall somewhat in California, Gordon revealed. Details will be revealed within the next 90 days, he ...

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