The Revitate Foundation convened its 2024 Social Impact Summit at the Vea Hotel in Newport Beach, California. This annual gathering serves to bring together Revitate’s community, by honoring leaders who are effecting significant social change at the nexus of sports, real estate, and consumer brands.

The Portland Thorns are adding minority investors, including a former NBA player, the CEO of a sportswear company, a prominent asset manager and an NBA co-owner.

MULTI-HOUSING NEWS: Chris Marsh of Revitate Cherry Tree writes on the resiliency of this investment

Lisa Bhathal Merage was honored with the Entrepreneur/Founder Award at the LA Times Inspirational Women Forum in Irvine, CA

Kunal Merchant, a partner and COO at the private equity firm Revitate Sports, talks pro sports, TV contracts, merchandising, fantasy football, the “star system” and how investors can make money by investing in professional sports — short of franchise ownership.

Alex Bhathal has several highlights to point to since winning a Business Journal Excellence in Entrepreneurship award last March. His Newport Beach-based RAJ Sports, which he leads with his sister Lisa Bhathal Merage, bought control of the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.

LOS ANGELES TIMES: Why buying into Portland Thorns and the NWSL was ‘a no-brainer’ for one family

Bhathal family becomes controlling owner of the Portland Thorns FC, acquiring club from Peregrine Sports

Revitate Impact joined LaTerra Development and WAY Capital Inc. to break ground on the 344-home Bedrock at the Trails in Albuquerque, N.M. Less than one month later, they accepted Informational Management Network’s 2023 “Best Land Deal of the Year” award for the project.

ORANGE COUNTY BUSINESS JOURNAL: Raising $150M for Newest Apartment Fund; Mixed-Use Focus

Impressive accomplishments by the esteemed ‘Visionary Women of Impact’ panel that convened at the Revitate 2023 Social Impact Summit

Revitate commemorated it’s 3rd annual Social Impact Summit held at the Orange County Museum of Art

Revitate Cherry Tree acquires workforce housing in the Midwest. Here is a highlight of one of our properties in Kansas City. By acquiring and actively preserving workforce housing for Americans of modest means, we are contributing in a positive way to the fabric of these communities while bringing to bare an institutional professionalism to the management of the assets.

Learn about Fund II and our Midwest workforce housing strategy.

Lisa has brought savvy, adaptability and relentless optimism to Southern California commercial real estate.

Morrison Yard project visited by Sen. Tim Scott, co-author of federal Opportunity Zone legislation; Development team and local leaders announce ‘Community Compact’ outlining project’s target economic and community benefits.

Revitate is pleased to announce Shay Hawkins as the newest member of the firm’s Social Impact Council

MULTIFAMILY DIVE: Recent premium hikes have been painful for apartment owners of all sizes.

CONNECT CRE: Since its introduction in 2017, the opportunity zone program has been lauded and criticized in turn. Cutting through some of the rhetoric, investors participating in the program have taken advantage of opportunity zone tax benefits.