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The Tri-Valley’s is continuing to grow as a center for medical services. Providers want to be here because most people are insured so they get paid.
The latest announcement came from Sunset Development Co., owners of Bishop Ranch Business Park. It has transformed one of its showcase multi-story buildings on Alcosta Boulevard into the Bishop Ranch Medical Campus. The owners gathered tenants from throughout the park and clustered them in the remodeled building that is anchored by John Muir Health that took 50,000 square feet of the 203,000-square-foot building.
It’s almost within walking distance of San Ramon Regional Medical Center. Kaiser maintains a multi-story medical building with a variety of services in the business park.
In Pleasanton, Muir, Kaiser, Sutter Health and Stanford Tri-Valley all have facilities. Last year, Stanford bought an additional three-building campus for expansion, This should be good news for patients locally.
Retired Pleasanton City Manager Nelson Fialho moved on to the executive director role with Renne Public Management Group with offices in San Francisco and Sacramento. The firm, as per its name, serves public agencies. Fialho also served as the interim CEO of the Three Valleys Foundation before retired Livermore schools chief Kelly Bowers stepped into that role. He also recruited her to join him at Renne.
His latest addition is retired Pleasanton Police Chief David Swing who stepped down last year to head the agency coordinating communications between East Bay first responder agencies. Swing will continue in that role while adding the consulting duties.
Checking in on the never-ending movements in the retail scene. San Francisco officials were stunned this week when upscale Bloomingdale’s announced it would close its 330,000-square-foot store at San Francisco Center at the end of March. Last August, Nordstrom closed its store of about the same size when its lease expired. In Bloomingdale’s case, the lease ran until 2046 according to the San Francisco Business Times. The closure will leave the mall without a major store and floundering—the two mall owners—Westfield and Brookfield—returned it to lenders last year.
Meanwhile, a bit more perspective on Pleasanton and the closures of Kohl’s and Party City. The center, which includes the busy Walmart store, provided the city with $3.1 million in sales tax revenue in the fiscal year ending June 2023. Sales tax revenues for the entire city—driven by the car dealerships along Interstate 580, totaled
$23.9 million. So, there will be a loss, but as long as Walmart stays busy, the revenue stream will continue and it does open up the possibility of other uses on that site.
