Douglas Ross Construction, Inc.

We are a third party general contractor, serving individual clients and large developers alike, in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Over the course of our 30 years in business, we have built hotels, restaurants and other facilities. However our specialty - the kind of work where we cannot be outdone - is the construction of larger high-density, urban in-fill apartment projects. We typically build three or four levels of wood frame buildings on a post-tension podium slab over one or two levels of underground parking. More recently, we have partnered with ConXtech (see "Projects"), a firm that has developed a steel building system using mass customized components for residential mid to high-rise application. The system is superior seismically, shortens the construction schedule and allows for eight to ten stories on the same podium slab that used to be limited to four.

Palisade Builders, Inc.

We operate similarly to Douglas Ross Construction with the same areas of specialty and expertise. However, we build for-sale housing. Insurance, bonding and other requirements are sufficiently different in this market that keeping the for-sale product separate is important. We build our management teams from the same pool of talented employees, draw on the same group of proven subcontractors, share main office facilities and are managed by the same corporate officers.