Charlie Zhang serves as the treasurer of the Richard Nixon Foundation\u2019s board, which oversees the Yorba Linda library and museum dedicated to the 37th president.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s less a political statement than it is \u201can act of gratitude,\u201d said Zhang, whose family lived in Shanghai. He was taken away as a boy to work in the fields of rural China, as part of the re-education campaign imposed by the State. He wouldn\u2019t have made it here, at age 24, if not for Nixon\u2019s 1972 visit to China, which opened diplomatic ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo Nixon, no Charlie,\u201d said Zhang during his keynote speech at the Business Journal\u2019s March 26 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards; see this week\u2019s edition for profiles on the latest collection of winners.<\/p>\n
Other foundation board members with similar stories include billionaire Ming Hsieh, founder of Fulgent Therapeutics and a prominent USC backer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we came here, we saw how you could build your own life, a better life, if you really worked hard and studied hard,\u201d Hsieh told USC a few years ago.<\/p>\n
Zhang, the founder of fast-food chain Pick Up Stix and now the head of Laguna Hills-based investor Zion Enterprises, also credits OC for his success.<\/p>\n
\u201cOrange County gave me a chance,\u201d said Zhang, whose first restaurant, Shanghai Charlie\u2019s, opened in San Juan Capistrano in 1984. \u201cPeople were kind when they didn\u2019t have to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amar Santana, OC\u2019s best-known chef for the better part of a decade, gets an overdue recognition as our Chef of the Year in this week\u2019s edition; see Christopher Trela\u2019s front-pagthe great tax benefits with the build of Golden 1 Center, we saw firsthand the social impact it created,\u201d Merage said.<\/p>\n
Revitate\u2019s first fund was called Revoz and was started with capital from friends and family.
Eight years later, Revitate has seven different funds and has made more than $2 billion in investments across over 25 assets.<\/p>\n
Merage said that with every investment, the firm tracks the social impact that it creates before, during and after construction, which she oversees as chief impact officerand food centers have since recovered from 2020; SCP\u2019s Collage, anchored by family favorite Paradise Dynasty, does brisk business in the Bloomingdale\u2019s wing of the mall.<\/p>\n
Santa Ana\u2019s MainPlace Mall is looking to add its name to the mix; the mall\u2019s owner is eyeing a new, 17,000-square-foot Culinary District at the center, now seeing a bevy of residential development on its grounds. See Joseph Pimentel\u2019s front-page story for more.<\/p>\n
The St. Regis is doubling down on resort properties with OC ties.<\/p>\n
The luxe hotel division of Marriott International last month announced plans to bring the top resort on northwest Maui, the former Montage Kapalua Bay, into its portfolio next year.<\/p>\n
The 25-acre property is owned by KWC Management; Irvine\u2019s Montage Hotel & Resorts previously sold its stake in the property. Irvine\u2019s White Label Asset Management remains involved in the resort and is helping with the repositioning of the resort.<\/p>\n
Closer to home, The Resort at Pelican Hill is in the midst of a major overhaul, in preparation of the 332-key Newport Coast hotel becoming a St. Regis property next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Zhang serves as the treasurer of the Richard Nixon Foundation\u2019s board, which oversees the Yorba Linda library…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-254278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}