Vallarta Supermarket, a Latino owned and controlled company acquired the lease of a 49,870 sq. ft. former Vons Grocery in a severely distressed low-income community in Pasadena, CA. NMTC financing for the construction of 21 affordable homeownership units that replaced a nuisance liquor store at a blighted intersection in Pasadena. Financing for M.E.R.C.I. for the completion of the construction of two new buildings on it’s Monterey Park campus.