About Harvey Champlin

Harvey Champlin is a highly seasoned real estate executive with extensive domestic and international development experience in master planned resort communities, hotels, and condominiums. Mr. Champlin is currently President and Managing Member of Harvey Champlin Associates, LLC, a real estate investment and development company located in Ventura, California.

Mr. Champlin combines his real estate law, development and investment banking background with strong leadership, communication and analytical skills to effectively design and implement real estate investment strategies. Mr. Champlin has significant transactional, marketing and financial experience that gives him a unique perspective in structuring, organizing and managing real estate companies and projects.

Harvey began his real estate career as a land use and environmental consultant in Southern California, and became a recognized authority on the California Environmental Quality Act. After becoming an attorney, he founded and managed his own law firm in Orange County, California, specializing in land use and entitlement law. He subsequently started his own development company and completed several projects in Orange County before joining Associated Inns and Restaurant Company of America (AIRCOA) as a senior real estate executive. He has also held senior management positions with VMS Realty, Divi Resorts, and the Los Sueños Marriott Resort in Costa Rica.

Mr. Champlin is a Vietnam Veteran and former Naval Aviator. After the Navy, he gained valuable marketing experience as an Assistant Brand Manager at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and received his Law Degree from Pepperdine University. He is active in the non-profit community in Ventura, California, and serves on the Board of Commissioners of the Ventura Housing Authority.

“The impression I got the first time I met him was he was invested, emotionally and financially, in the community,” said Josh Addison, the founder of the Bell Arts Factory on the Avenue and a Community Council member.

“I get the feel of a local developer from him, not a big out-of-town guy. He’s sensitive to the needs of the community in which he’s developing.”

- Excerpt from Ventura County Star article, “Developer Looks Skyward” by Tony Biasotti