Capital and Counties
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Capital and Counties USA, Inc. (C & C) is a real-estate and investment company based in San Francisco, California. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty International PLC, one of the largest publicly traded property companies in the United Kingdom. Liberty International also owns Capital Shopping Centres, a leading UK shopping center company, and Capital & Counties PLC, a retail (non-mall) and office investment company.
| Capital and Counties USA, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Type | Public (subsidiary of Liberty International PLC) |
| Founded | California, U.S. |
| Headquarters | 100 The Embarcadero #300 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Area served | U.S. West Coast |
| Key people | Turner Newton (President) Kathryn Kearney (Executive Vice-President) |
| Industry | Real Estate Management |
| Employees | 14 (2007) |
| Parent | Liberty International PLC |
| Divisions | C & C Development Group |
| Website | CapCount-USA.com |
Since 1995 C & C has grown from $145.9 million to over $750 million in 2007. Aggressive portfolio management during this time has been employed in order to optimize investor returns. On the acquisition side, C & C's primary focus has been on core-plus and value-add properties. Acquisitions and dispositions are not based on capital allocations or predetermined holding periods. Instead, investment decisions are made solely on the basis of optimizing the allocation of capital resources.
[edit] Investments
For the past three decades Capital and Counties USA, Inc. has followed an objective of owning high quality retail and office investment properties. The result is an exceptional portfolio of properties each of which enjoys a competitive advantage within its submarket. Examples of the properties, past and present, maintained by C & C are as follows:
