On January 21, 2025, Inland Action met with Randall Lewis. With over 50-years’ experience in the real estate industry, Randall Lewis serves as Executive Vice President and a Principal of Lewis Management Corp., a member of the Lewis Group of Companies.
The Lewis Group of Companies is one of the most active real estate developers in California and Nevada. They are developing over a dozen significant master planned communities and own over 35 shopping centers. In addition, the Lewis Group has many apartment and industrial projects underway throughout California and Nevada. The Lewis Group owns over 13,000 apartments and controls land for over 40,000 future homes and apartments. Throughout its history, they have built well over 60,000 homes and apartments.
Randall began his time with Inland Action providing background of his organization specifically as related to real estate development including large projects involving master planning and infrastructure. He shared the current picture of real estate including reduced resale of existing homes due to higher interest rates, higher purchasing of new homes by buyers due to builders buying down interest rates, and the overbuilding of apartments. He shared that good retail space will continue to be built. Bad retail space such as suffering malls, etc. will be repurposed potentially into 3-story townhomes due to the cost of land.
Randall predicts that the Inland Empire will have a good year. In our area we have affordable land, a desirable place to live, a positive quality of life, and the opportunity for expansion due to transportation. What he sees for the next generation of housing is independent projects such as duplexes to rent with shared garage space.
Randall has received numerous awards including the 2016 Inland Empire Champion Award from the Inland Empire Hispanic Leadership Council and the 2019 Ontario Museum Art & Culture Award. In 2021, Randall received the UC Riverside Policy Innovator Award and in 2024, he received the Growing Inland Achievement Award in Innovation. He has also received Honorary Doctorates in Humane Letters from both California State University, San Bernardino, as well as University of La Verne.