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Chris Truebridge and Shapell Homes were honored Thursday as the recipient of the Rotary Club of San Ramon Valley’s second annual Business Hall of Fame award.
The Hall of Fame recognizes an individual and company who have made significant contributions to the community for at least 10 years, said member Bill Clarkson, also a school board trustee.
Truebridge is the division president of Shapell Homes and has been with the company since August 1977. The Milpitas-based developer has built more than 5,000 homes in San Ramon and Danville since 1975.
San Ramon Mayor H. Abram Wilson presented the award on behalf of the club, noting that Truebridge has been a “true friend to San Ramon and the San Ramon Valley.” Truebridge was also honored by Contra Costa Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho. She said that, in addition to Truebridge’s work with Shapell, he was “instrumental in the Sentinels of Freedom,” a program that assists permanently disabled veterans with housing, transportation, employment, mentoring and provides other support.
Truebridge was also lauded for his support of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District and for his work with the California Shakespeare Theater and several local nonprofit groups.
Posted with a smile for the author
Dear neighbors,
This story of Shapell brings such warm memories of Milpitas. In the Late ’90’s as Hal and others among us were bringing technology to our world, Shapell was delivering stucco to our hillsides. Our land has been scarred and covered with stucco on boxes quite in a row all over Contra Costa County. The result, if I might borrow Hal’s humor, is repetition of monster boxes looking like a Comfort Inn from a strip mall in Fresno.
It is not humor that we must recognize that Shapell was recognized for bringing rows of stucco to our absent landscape that was once the San Ramon and other valleys.
Vince Kreigher, as Krak Potts
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Now couple this with Guy Houston and you have DUBLIN!
Now there is an image that cannot be compared to anything past present (or hopefully future) in Contra Costa County. Houston has never met a homebuilder he did not like!
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Dear neighbors,
The focus of this discussion is the community contribution of Chris Truebridge versus the questions of sprawling development sponsored by Shapell. The questions raised are whether such recognition is appropriate to the results created by Shapell and other builders.
Hal/CDSI Research
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In review of the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisor agenda and results for the 2005 to Present, Supervisor Piepho has repeatedly presented agenda items favoring Shapell. Thus, the question of recognition for Shapell creates questions concerning relationships among county and city governments. The focus of that question is the role of the Rotary Club of San Ramon Valley in such relationships.
http://www.sanramonvalleyrotary.org/index.cfm?display=officers&sub=h
What are your concerns, neighbors?
Lisa
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Well don’t worry everyone…there is a decline in the building of stucco homes. That’s the good news for you…the bad news you ask? Unemployment is on the rise cause developers are laying off…Oh but I am sure that is ok with you since you no longer have to wait inline at lunch time cause those pesky building employees aren’t taking up space in the resteraunts around town.
Get over it people…..Development is important for our economy. Stop being such elitist!