NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL EVENT

Best Places to Work 2008 Awards Reception

September 25, 2008, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Doubletree Hotel, Rohnert Park

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Who's Who in Commercial Real Estate Development in Sonoma County

Larry Wasem, Managing general member, Airport Business Center

414 Aviation Blvd., Santa Rosa 95403; 707-578-5344; airportbusinesscenter.com

North Bay projects: Airport Business Center Phase 7, Santa Rosa – the latest expansion to the 500-acre business park; has 16 acres of industrial land in Windsor.

Starting with 13 acres in 1984, Larry Wasem and partners amassed a business park with 5 million square feet of existing buildings and sites for tens of thousands of square feet of future buildings. Similar partners also built the Petaluma Marin Office Center in Petaluma and The Roxy muliplex theaters in downtown Santa Rosa.



Lukhbir Gill, President and CEO, B&G Group Inc.

200 Fourth St. #201, Santa Rosa 95401; 707-360-1340; bggroupinc.com

North Bay projects: Hilton Garden Inn, Santa Rosa – 92-room business-class hotel under construction; 175 W. College Ave., Santa Rosa – 20,000-square-foot office building, completed and in leaseup phase; Fast Lane gas stations, Santa Rosa, Geyserville, Truckee, Lathrop; Hotel La Rose, Santa Rosa – Co-redevelopment with Railroad Square LLC for hotel expansion, to begin in 2007.



Matt White, President, Basin Street Properties

201 First St. #100, Petaluma 94952; 707-795-4477; basin-street.com

North Bay projects: Golden Eagle Shopping Center renovation; development land in Fountaingrove Executive Center.

Co-founded by his father, Bill White, in the late 1970s, Basin Street Properties has undergone a significant shift under the leadership of Matt White. The company sold almost all its North Bay office portfolio in 2005 and has been acquiring and developing office properties in Reno while working on retail and housing projects in the North Bay.



Brigitta Brondi, President, Brondi Development

3625 Westwind Blvd., Santa Rosa 95403; 707-579-2400; westwind-businesspark.com

North Bay project: Westwind Business Park, Santa Rosa – 80-acre master planned development with the remaining building pads prepared for immediate construction.



Brad Baker, President and CEO, Codding Enterprises

1400 Valley House Dr., Rohnert Park 94928; 707-795-3550; sonomamountainvillage.com

North Bay projects: Sonoma Mountain Village, Rohnert Park – 200 acres; 500,000 square feet of existing office and warehouse space; planned urban village with 1,900 homes and multifamily dwellings; Coddingtown, Santa Rosa – 930,000-square-foot mall built in 1960; undergone $15 million in upgrades; eyed for possible redevelopment.

Step-son of Sonoma County real estate development icon Hugh Codding, Brad Baker is leading the return of Codding Enterprises to the development scene with a environmentally friendly urban village at the former Agilent Technologies campus and a rumored redevelopment or repositioning of Coddingtown with recent venture partner and Simon Property Group. True to the new direction of the company, Mr. Baker co-founded and helps direct alternative fuels producer American Biodiesel.



David Casty, Senior vice president & manager, DSL Service Co.

3501 Jamboree Rd., Newport Beach 92660; 949-854-3100; downeysavings.com

North Bay project: Deer Creek Plaza, Petaluma – 352,000-square-foot power center with office and medical/dental space; anchored by Lowe's Home Improvement, on 36.5 acres fronting on Highway 101; awaiting draft environmental report and adoption of the city General Plan this year; estimated cost less than $100 million.

David Casty has been handling the real estate investments for Downey Savings, a 50-year-old bank with more than $17 billion in assets, since 1986 and was promoted to his current position last year. DSL has developed other retail centers in Sonoma County, but Mr. Casty has been working on the Deer Creek project for 10 years as decisions about a Rainier Avenue overpass have come and gone.



Hugh Futrell, CEO, Hugh Futrell Corp.

200 Fourth St. #250, Santa Rosa 95401; 707-568-3482; hughfutrellcorp.com

North Bay projects: 250 Davis St./201 Fourth St., Santa Rosa – four-story, 70,000-square-foot class A office building with ground-floor retail and interior parking; awaiting city approval; construction aimed to start in October and finish a year later; 201 Third St., Santa Rosa – 6,000-square-foot, two-story retail building set for completion in June.

Hugh Futrell and partners Bill Carle and Frank Gobar have built about 40 residential, commercial and mixed-use projects in the North Bay, including 140,000 square feet of commercial space and valued at $233 million. True to his ideal of environmentally conscious urban core development, his recent projects have focused on Santa Rosa's Railroad Square, including a 40,000-square-foot class A office building and 43,000-square-foot residential and retail building, both built in 2005.



Thomas Monahan, President, Monahan Pacific

1101 Fifth Ave. #300, San Rafael 94901; 415-456-0600

North Bay projects: The Renaissance, Santa Rosa – 186 condominiums; 15,000 square feet of retail; over 650 parking spaces in a 12-story building; estimated  cost $100 million; construction to start in 2008 and wrap in 2010; The Rises, Santa Rosa – 96 condos and 15,000 square feet of shops; over 100 parking spaces adjacent to The Renaissance; estimated cost $50 million; construction set to begin in 2009 and end in 2011; Cotati Marketplace/Village Cotati, Cotati – shops, offices and housing; set to be built in 2008 for the 2009 market; estimated cost $50 million.

Marin County resident Tom Monahan, a University of Colorado business and architecture graduate, started the 18-employee residential and commercial development company in 1985. He has built 700,000 square feet of projects in the North Bay and another 1 million square feet throughout the Bay Area, all together worth $1 billion.



Jake Whiteley and Sean Rodrigues, Partners, North Street Partners LLC

230A Center St., Healdsburg 95448; 707-433-2300; northstreetllc.com

North Bay projects: Shiloh Sustainable Village, Windsor – phase 1 starting construction in August; 64,000 square feet of retail anchored by Village Markets; 80 affordable condominiums; targeted LEED Platinum certification; Phase 2 would start in 2008 and have 60 three-story row houses on three acres; tentative map application submitted.



Rhonda Deringer, President, Odyssey Development

PO Box 706, Tiburon 94920; 707-310-2291; odysseydevelopmentcompany.com

North Bay projects: DeTurk Village, Santa Rosa – homes and retail space in Railroad Square; Sonoma Valley Business Park, Sonoma – 300,000 square feet of wine and food-related light industrial space on 20.5 acres.



Bruce Qualls, Director of investments, Regency Centers Corp.

2999 Oak Rd. #1000, Walnut Creek 94597; 925-279-1800; regencycenters.com

North Bay projects: Santa Rosa Village, Santa Rosa – 91,000 square feet of grocery-anchored retail with condos and apartments; project stalled as housing co-developer is sought; estimated cost $90 million; East Washington Place, Petaluma – 300,000 square feet of retail anchored by Target, Circuit City, Borders and Cost Plus; 227 residential condominiums; draft environmental report comment period ends April 28; estimated cost $185 million for retail and housing.



Vince Rizzo, Principal, Rizzo & Associates

PO Box 278, Kenwood 95452; 707-537-1041

North Bay projects: Industry West Commerce Center, Santa Rosa – 175,000 square feet of warehouse and light-industrial space on Todd Road; entitled and preliminary construction work started.



Paul Elmore, President, RNM Properties

135 Main St. #1140, San Francisco 94105; 415-356-2000; rnmproperties.com

North Bay projects: South McDowell Landing, Petaluma – 144,000 square feet of class A office space; Cader Corporate Center, Petaluma – 354,000 square feet of office space on 20.4 acres; entitled and site preparation completed; South McDowell East, Petaluma – 240,000 square feet of office space on 13.6 acres; entitled and site prep completed.

Paul Elmore joined RNM in 2000 as director and became president in 2001. RNM was started in 1993 and has built more than 3 million square feet in the western U.S., including several hundred thousand square feet in Petaluma.



Joan Woodard, President and CEO; Larry Simons, Founder and chairman; Simons & Woodard Inc.

100 Stony Point Rd. #180, Santa  Rosa 95401; 707-524-6300; simonsandwoodard.com

North Bay projects: Northpoint Corporate Center, Santa Rosa – 500,000 square feet of office, flex and warehouse space has already been built and leased and a like amount of office space has yet to be built.



Jeffrey Sommers and Buck Oates, Co-owners, Sommers Oates & Associates

5880 Commerce Blvd. #210, Rohnert Park 94928; 707-584-8363

North Bay projects: Rohnert Park mixed-use project – retail, office and homes on four acres; Ukiah Industrial Park, Ukiah – mini-storage and industrial buildings on seven acres with construction to start in 2008 and end in 2010.

Jeffrey Sommers and Buck Oates have built 25 projects in Rohnert Park and Cotati – totaling 700,000 square feet and valued at up to $75 million – since they formed the company in 1984. The company takes projects from inception through construction. Top projects include headquarters of now-defunct Next Level Communications, medical offices for US Cancer Care and recently completed 12-acre Kandy Business Park in Cotati.



Paul Thompson, President, West Bay Development, Inc.

250 Bel Marin Keys, Bldg. A, Novato 94949; 415-456-8972; westbaybuilders.com

North Bay projects: The Comstock, Santa Rosa – 116 condominiums and ground-floor retail in a 14-story building; estimated cost $70 million; construction begins in 2008 and wraps by early 2010; Penny Faire, Cloverdale – phase 1 done in 2006 with 10,900 square feet of commercial space; estimated cost $2.7 million; and phase 2 set to begin this spring with 3,750 square feet of commercial space at a cost of $1 million.

Paul Thompson started commercial general contracting company West Bay Builders in 1989. A few years ago, he formed West Bay Development the 2005 renovation of 490 Mendocino Ave. in Santa Rosa and the transformation of Sweed School in Petaluma into homes. Currently, the developer has $155 million in projects under way in the North Bay and another $126 million in two San Francisco mid-rise condo projects.



William Saks, Principal, William A. Saks & Co.

1010 Main St., St. Helena 94574; 707-968-9696; williamasaks.com

North Bay projects: Carneros Business Park, Sonoma – 53 master-planned acres with parcels for sale; Carneros Business Condominiums, Carneros Business Park, Sonoma – joint venture with commercial general contractors Willie McDevitt and Ed Brush; 40 1,000-square-foot warehouse-office units set for construction in June and completion in November; estimated cost $8.5 million; "green" office building, Napa; 66,000 square feet of class A space in three stories.

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