Perhaps no one has done more to bring Asian shopping centers to communities across the Bay Area than John Luk.
Luk launched his career in commercial real estate years after arriving in the South Bay from Hong Kong for a career in nursing. But noticing the lack of Asian grocery stores and banquet halls as demographics shifted in the South Bay, he formed a partnership in 1993 to open Milpitas Square, one of the Bay Area’s first large Asian-themed shopping malls, with around 60 retail shops and restaurants.
Since then, Luk’s firm, GD Commercial Real Estate, has been involved with developing, leasing and managing more than a dozen shopping centers in Santa Clara and Alameda counties, including Lion Plaza in San Jose and Pacific Pearl Shopping Center in Pleasanton…