Arizona Commercial Real Estate Developers

Champion is a Scottsdale-based commercial real estate developer specializing in neighborhood focused, lifestyle-centered retail and office developments. We offer retail shop space, pad sites and free standing office condominiums which can be leased or sold. We work diligently with local municipalities to provide ample signage, parking and access to make coming to your new location as easy as possible.

Our current projects are located in Gilbert, Surprise and North Phoenix. We plan to break ground on another quality development in Surprise in 2010. More information on our active commercial real estate developments can be found here.

Secondary Responsibility

By Ricky Lyons in : Champion Culture, Culture Thoughts, Ricky@Champion // Jul 29 2010

Two or three years ago we were having a discussion with a contractor who was in the midst of building one of our projects.  Neither schedules nor budgets were being met.  The budget was the contractor’s problem, but the schedule …(continued)…

Responsibility is the key

By Ricky Lyons in : Champion Culture, Culture Thoughts, Ricky@Champion // Jul 28 2010

Champion operates under a model that is an integral part of our Culture. The model was first designed one afternoon at a Strategic Coach™ seminar, when a workshop mate of mine stopped the conversation and said, “Ricky, I think I …(continued)…

Prosperity and its connection to Time

By Ricky Lyons in : Champion Culture, Culture Thoughts // Jul 26 2010

The metric of prosperity is time.  This has been the case since commerce started.

It is evidenced by the massive prosperity we have achieved by the exponential increase in computing power always at a lower cost.  Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, …(continued)…

Pick up the phone and call me please!

By Ricky Lyons in : Culture Thoughts // Jul 20 2010

I did an email exercise recently.  I took three normal days worth of email and looked at them to see how many had some level of thoroughness. How many were just a long chain of short answers to questions that …(continued)…

Massage Envy’s $600 million in annual revenue and 20,000 employees

By Adam Lyons in : Adam@Champion, News // Jul 20 2010

Source: AzCentral

When he sold the clubs and was looking at another business venture, he hit on the idea of offering inexpensive massage services in an upscale setting on a membership basis, similar to a health club.

Leonesio set up his first …(continued)…

The strategy is a checklist

By Ricky Lyons in : Culture Thoughts // Jul 19 2010

We are in the real estate development business where checklists are critical to our contractors, to our lenders, and in several processes we organize on a daily basis.  Prior to reading Gawandi’s book The Checklist Manifesto – How to Get …(continued)…