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Welcome to Continental Development Group, LLC

Continental Development Group

We are a full-service commercial real estate firm.

Continental Development Group

We have a proven track record.

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Designed to meet the need of today’s growing retailers.

Verve Coffee

Creating communities through development.

Continental Development Group

Proven results.

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Portfolio

A Selection of Projects

Virgil Village

611 Virgil Village

611 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90004

Project Type: In Development. Ground up construction. Multi-Family over ground floor commercial.

Project Size: 39,000 SF | 30 Residential Units.

Status: Under Construction

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Virgil Village

700 Virgil & Melrose

700 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029

Project Type: In Development. Ground up construction. Multi-Family over ground floor commercial.

Project Size: 81,000 SF | 37 Residential Units

Status: Under Construction

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Pasadena Artistry Theater

Pasadena  Artistry Theater

600 E Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101

Property Type: Retail & Restaurant Compound

Property Size: 15,470 SF

Major Tenants: Sweetgreen, Anytime Fitness, Carbon Health, Fit Bar Superfood Cafe & Space Bar Wellness

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Mohawk Collective

Mohawk Collective

2110 - 2134 W. Sunset Blvd & 1041 N. Alvarado St.,
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Property Type: Retail & Restaurant Compound

Property Size: 22,000 SF

Major Tenants: Larchmont Bungalow, Habit Burger, Starbucks, Chipotle, Carbon Health, Verizon.

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8075 W. 3rd Street

8075 W. 3rd Street

8075 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90048

Property Type: Office With Ground Floor Restaurants & Retail

Property Size: 35,270 SF

Major Tenants: Sweetfin Poke, Capsule, Curbstand, EF Collection, Olive Bridge Entertainment.

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Third & Laurel

8055 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90048

Property Type: Retail Center

Property Size: 6,500 SF

Major Tenants: Sweetgreen, Verve Coffee, Uncle Paulie’s Deli

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901 Abbot Kinney

901 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, CA 90291

Property Type: Creative Office

Property Size: 14,275 SF

Major Tenants: Dosist

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Culver Crossroads

4114 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230

Property Type: Retail Center

Property Size: 35,000 SF | 2 Acres

Major Tenants: Chipotle, Starbucks, Blaze Pizza, Jersey Mike’s, Anytime Fitness, Cycle Car, Sage Organic Vegan Bistro, Stand-Up Burgers.

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Former Projects

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Drummin Village

Drummin, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

Sold - December 2019

Property Type: Ground up new construction for a single family home master plan community

Property Size: +60 acres | 145 Single family homes

Paseo Plaza

Paseo Plaza

5667 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038

Sold - Fully Entitled November 2015

Property Type: Mixed Use; Fully entitled site for residential (multifamily and condominiums) over commercial

Property Size: 437 Residential units; approximately 1 million SF Mixed-Use

Culver Center

Culver Center

3851 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA 90232

Sold - November 2011

  • - California’s largest off-market transaction in 2011

Property Type: Nationally anchored shopping retail center

Property Size: 215,000 SF | 10 Acres

Eagle Rock Center

Eagle Rock Center

Los Angeles, CA 90041

Sold - April 2011

Property Type: Market/Drug Store Shopping Center

Property Size: 65,220 SF

Services

Acquisitions / Dispositions

CDG has a proven track record of adding value to its acquisitions and projects by implementing a disciplined underwriting strategy with quick to market asset development; resulting in above market returns. CDG acquires assets that need to be repositioned or completely redeveloped; in addition to land for development.

Development

CDG’s development team’s approach to add value to each project is responsible for high returns combined with quick results. The development team consists of professionals with diverse backgrounds and expertise in all phases of development. CDG brings its team together to execute each project with individual expertise in acquisitions, development, leasing, asset management and financing. CDG’s team is committed to working with people who have a passion for results.

Leasing

CDG’s strength in leasing is routed in its excellent relationships with tenants, both national and local, and their brokers. CDG’s experienced leasing team produces financial results through its personalized attention to achieve the development business objectives. For each project, the team focuses on curating a tenant mix designed to produce high sales and long term customer traffic by leveraging existing relationships with national and local tenants.

Financing

CDG’s capital strategy is to combine large equity with low leverage financing, particularly for projects where long term ownership is structured. CDG’s process is robust and repeatable, and not dependent on any one investment, strategy or individual. CDG capital stack is generally geared to cash equity by injecting its own cash equity, and in some instances, equity from select partners, combined with full leverage financing.

Management

CDG, through its affiliate Continental Management Group, LLC, provides comprehensive asset and property management services designed to maximize the value and performance of each asset. CMG’s management team works closely with the development team to develop customized management programs that meet and exceed investment objectives. CMG places a high priority on its tenant relationships as an important management tool to produce maximum value.

Firm Profile

Continental Development Group, LLC is a boutique real estate investment and development firm, focused on specific densely populated, urban core neighborhoods. CDG is a Los Angeles based private real estate company with vertically integrated construction, asset management, and financing capabilities. Since 1979, CDG has established a proven track record of developing, acquiring, and repositioning commercial assets throughout the continental United States.

CDG's core competencies are focused on re-positioning Class A and B commercial assets through a proven approach of in-house use-optimization, construction, finance & lease restructuring, and tenant repositioning. This approach has consistently yielded double-digit annual returns for mixed-use, retail, multi-family, and office/medical projects.

Team

Select a team member to learn more

Torrey
Ripinsky

CEO
Director of Financing & Director of Leasing

Samantha
Ripinsky

COO
Director of Planning and Development

Antoinette
Ripinsky

Chairman

Angelica
Orellana

Chief Financial Officer

Theresa
Garza

Head of Property Management and Operations

Maria
Fasano

Executive Architect and Designer

Leasing

For leasing inquiries and opportunities, please contact our office or email: info@ContinentalDevelopmentGroup.com

A collection of current and past tenants:

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Contact


Address
Continental Development Group, LLC
4114 Sepulveda Blvd
Suite L - 2nd Floor
Culver City, CA 90230


Email Us
info@continentaldevelopmentgroup.com

Call Us
P: (310) 253-9998
F: (310) 253-9897

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Torrey Ripinsky

CEO
Director of Financing & Director of Leasing

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Torrey graduated magna cum laude from George Washington University with a degree in macroeconomics and international relations. After graduating, Torrey worked at Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT REIT) before CDG where he has spent almost two decades. While at CDG, Torrey has overseen over $250,000,000 of development acquisitions/dispositions, financed and closed over $200,000,000 in loans, leased hundreds of thousands of square feet to multi-national, publicly traded companies.

Samantha Ripinsky

COO
Director of Planning and Development

Born in Los Angeles, Samantha graduated from George Washington University with a degree in international business.  Before spending almost a decade at CDG, Samantha worked at a REIT in New York City.   Samantha has established a proven track record of developing, acquiring, and repositioning commercial assets throughout the continental US.  Samantha specializes in construction, planning, and city entitlements, and assisting new concepts while helping stabilize their real estate presence.

Antoinette Ripinsky

COO
Director of Planning and Development

Antoinette has been a principal founder of Continental Development Group, LLC since its formation in 1998; and has served as a Director of CDG for over 23 years. 

Antoinette has developed multi-family and commercial retail properties in Los Angeles since 1980; and formed CDG to fill a void in the Los Angeles market - to create an investment company to acquire and build a portfolio of high quality multi-family and commercial properties located in a dense and  affluent demographics, inside dense urban city cores - combining investment properties and development projects under one office, managed by private professionals, merging  private individual oversight and management with the ability to implement professional investment decisions and project management, under one roof - in order to compete with institutional and public company property companies - yet free from the related organizational protocol and overhead costs. The formation of CDG provided a platform for quick and decisive investments, rapid analysis and decisions, which enabled the acquisition of high quality projects in high quality, dense urban areas - allowing CDG to compete head on with institutional investors - and enabled CDG to acquire and assemble a portfolio of Class “A” investment properties in Class “A” locations. 

During Antoinette‘s service as a Director of CDG,  she acquired and developed over 1,000,000 square feet of multi-family and commercial properties, primarily in the Southern California market, with a specialty in Los Angeles.

Angelica Orellana

Chief Financial Officer

Angie has 15 years of real estate management, acquisition, and financial experience. She began her career with Continental Development Group in 2005.  She has built many successful professional relationships with tenants, lenders and Vendors during her tenure at CDG. Angie prepares all asset financial statements, business activity reports and forecasts.  Daily tasks include the planning, directing and coordinating of all accounting operational functions, managing the accumulation and consolidation of all financial data necessary for an accurate accounting of all assets.

Phillip Silver

Director of Construction

Phil brings 30 years of experience in the construction industry and works closely with clients to achieve their project goals.  His unique background in both general and concrete construction gives him the insight to find solutions and work as an effective construction consultant in large complex projects such as multi-family communities including high-rise, mid-rise and garden-style communities, multi-story subterranean parking structures and commercial space improvements.

Jaime Navarro

Project Management & Construction Superintendent

Jaime Navarro is retired from US Navy after serving 25 years with the Naval Construction Force. With 33 years of combined single family and multi-family mixed use construction experience, he brings his love of the industry to the job he enjoys, including the challenges of building and managing construction projects. When Navarro is not working on managing projects, he likes to go mountain biking, camping, cooking and spending time with his wife and family.

Theresa Garza

Head of Property Management and Operations

With over 23 years of experience, Theresa was first introduced to property management overseeing the daily operations of “Executive Suites”.  While there, she cultivated relationships with proprietors of Real Estate, Finance and Law. She has devoted much of her time managing the upkeep of each facility, including the daily operations of the office, interactions with tenants, vendors, government agencies, and property maintenance.

Maria Fasano

Executive Architect and Designer

Maria was born in Panama.  She has lived and/or collaborated in projects in Costa Rica, Colombia, United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and China.

After working for private contractors, architectural firms (both as guest architect and as architectural designer), construction firms and private clients Maria has found a new home here at CDG.  Maria has worked in areas of interior design and architectural design.  Her architecture experience includes high-end luxury residential design, mixed-use, rehabilitation and re-use, multi-family residential projects, commercial projects and conceptual civic buildings.