Bates Enterprise Group is a diversified holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities — across real estate, transmedia, and sports & entertainment — while partnering with civic institutions and foundations to strengthen the communities it serves.
We hold, capitalize, and steward a diversified portfolio across industries and borders. Our purpose is singular: to be the durable financial foundation that lets our partners and communities grow for generations, not quarters.
A parent platform that owns and governs operating companies and long-term positions across sectors.
Patient, principal capital deployed with discipline — structured for resilience through every cycle.
Alliances with institutions, enterprises, and franchises that create shared, compounding value.
We build deliberately, with a select circle of partners whose ambitions match our own.
Institutions seeking a credible, well-capitalized partner for co-investment, sponsorship, and philanthropic impact at scale.
Sovereign nations and tribal entities building diversified, generational economic engines with a partner who respects self-determination.
Ownership groups and franchises pursuing capital, brand equity, and venture partnerships across the sports economy.
High-net-worth individuals and family offices seeking access to a curated platform of private opportunities.
International markets and headlines, updated around the clock.
Beyond capital, Bates builds and holds operating ventures across media, sports, and community — each a compounding asset within the Group's platform.
The Group's transmedia production arm — developing film, episodic, and cross-platform content as part of a broader transmedia-and-sports enterprise vision, operating alongside the Binational Sports Syndicate.
Design and development of top-of-the-line websites and digital platforms — premium, high-performance brand sites engineered to convert, scale, and endure — for the Group's ventures, partners, and select clients.
A cross-border sports and digital-venue venture — building the live and digital infrastructure of the modern sports economy in partnership with the Group's transmedia division.
Independent civic institutions the Group is proud to partner with — lending capital and strategic support to advance regional economic development and philanthropic impact. Proudly partnering with the Lemon Grove Chamber of Commerce & Foundation.
The Group's real estate division pursues acquisition, development, and representation across the region — led by our Director of Real Estate & Asset Acquisition.
Directed by Jocelle Maliwanag, M.B.A.
As Director of Real Estate & Asset Acquisition, Jocelle Maliwanag blends corporate financial acumen with hands-on deal execution — leading the Group's site selection, commercial asset acquisition, and master-leasing strategies. She specializes in complex municipal land-use policy, zoning approvals, and multi-party commercial transactions.
Director of Real Estate & Asset Acquisition
CA DRE Broker License # 01703043
Leads site selection, commercial acquisition, and master-leasing across the Group's portfolio.
Discipline in capital. Conviction in partnership. Patience in time.
We do not chase cycles. We build platforms — capitalizing and holding what endures, and standing beside our partners as long-term principals rather than passing investors.
"We measure success not in a single deal, but in the strength of the partnerships and the communities we leave stronger than we found them."
— Portland D. Bates, MPA · Founder & Managing PrincipalInquiries from corporate partners, tribal enterprises, franchises, and principal investors are handled personally and in confidence.
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