Who We are

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Our Mission

Building trust through proven performance

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History

Timeless values, modern vision

1962

1962

Hall Equities Group was founded as Dynamic Agents Inc. by Merle Hall and Phil LaMarche in Lafayette, CA and enters the residential real estate brokerage business. Within a few years, the company is the largest residential home broker in the region and Merle Hall buys out Phil LaMarche.
1962
1976

1976

Dynamic Agents exits the residential real estate brokerage business to focus on investment brokerage and property management for private investors. The company name changes to Merle D. Hall Company.

1976
1986

1986

Mark Hall joins his father at Merle D. Hall Company after a five year period with Los Angeles based Tishman West, the Western US division of New York based Tishman Management Corporation. From 1986 to 1992, Mark is instrumental in obtaining numerous asset management contracts on behalf of private investors and completing many acquisitions of shopping centers, office buildings, industrial complexes, and apartment buildings.

1986
1989

1989

Merle D. Hall Company completes development of its first retail shopping center, Palm Court in Walnut Creek, CA. The company acted as overall project manager, arranged equity financing, and orchestrated all construction management and lease up.

1989
1992

1992

Mark Hall acquires 50% of the stock of Merle D. Hall Company and assumes executive leadership of the organization. Mark negotiates a transformational investment for two of the company’s largest clients, exchanging 14 small rental homes and used car lots for a 30,000 square foot Safeway store and a 65,000 square foot office building on a long-term lease with Kaiser Permanente in downtown Wal

1992
1994

1994

Mark Hall and long time partner, Richard Clancy, make an opportunistic purchase of the newly developed Tower Court luxury condominiums in Walnut Creek, CA. Over the years, many further investments have been financed from this acquisition including a Dow Chemical Research facility in Walnut Creek, CA; the Children’s Hospital complex in Walnut Creek, CA; Britton Place in Lacey, WA; Laguna Village in Sacramento, CA; and part of the ZMC Hotels acquisition in Duluth, MN.  

1994
1995

1995

Mark Hall leads a partnership that purchases 30 acres (including 150,000 square feet of office and laboratory buildings) in Shadelands Business Park in Walnut Creek, CA. The partnership conducts a major remodel of the asset and converts it to a state-of-the-art life sciences laboratory complex under a design-build contract with the University of California and the US Department of Energy. This investment results in the development of the company’s first self-storage facility, medical building and surgery center, and life sciences buildings.
1995
1999

1999

Mark Hall completes acquisition of 100% of stock in the operating company and changes its name to Hall Equities Group.
1999
2005

2005

Hall Equities Group enters the hospitality industry with the construction and management of two hotels in Turlock, CA including a Holiday Inn Express and a Marriott Fairfield Inn and Suites. These two hotels are part of a 159 acre site which Hall Equities Group owned and developed into a 1.14 million square foot regional retail complex. From 1995 to 2005, Hall Equities Group completes the development of more than 1.6 million square feet of projects.

2005
2008

2008

The financial crisis hits hard, but Hall Equities Group liquidates several key, high quality assets, including its entire Southern California office portfolio, at the peak of the market in 2006 to 2007. With significant liquidity and zero development debt, Hall Equities Group makes several strategic and successful acquisitions in the downturn and constructs five new projects between 2008 and 2013.

2008
2015

2015

Hall Equities Group acquires a Minnesota-based hotel management company and all 29 of its hotels in a single transaction. The acquisition expands the company’s hotel portfolio to include 34 boutique and branded hotels, totaling approximately 4,000 rooms in 12 states.

2015
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Shadelands Self-Storage

Self-Storage
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Walnut Creek, CA

1925 Oak Grove Road

  • Shadelands Self Storage was built by Hall Equities Group in 1998.
  • This is currently the largest storage facility in Contra Costa. It is located on a 6.3-acre parcel containing 1,200 units with 143,000 SF of total space. The units are available with climate control and feature non-combustible construction.
  • It is the only storage facility in Contra Costa that can accommodate an 18-wheel moving truck.

Joint Genome Institute

Life Science
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Walnut Creek, CA

2800 Mitchell Drive

  • 2800 Mitchell Drive was an adaptive reuse of a functionally obsolete chemical laboratory into a world-class, state of the art life science laboratory.
  • Entitlements and amendments to the General Plan for Walnut Creek were secured in 1995 in record time. The project's design and construction was completed on time in less than 12 months.
  • Developed by Hall Equities Group for the Joint Genome Institute (and still the current tenant), this facility is where some of the world's most talented geneticists have decoded as much as 60% of the genetic map of human DNA.

Shadelands SportsMall

Athletic Complex
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Walnut Creek, CA

2640 Shadelands Drive

  • The Shadelands SportsMall is an adaptive re-use project transforming a former newspaper publishing facility into an elite indoor sports training facility.
  • Phase I of the project was completed in January 2016 with the grand opening of The Ultimate Fieldhouse, a premier 39,000+ SF basketball training facility.
  • Phase II, opened in January 2020, include 10 high-caliber sports programs such as COPA Soccer Training Center, American Swim Academy, Encore Gymnastics, Sparta Taekwondo, Mike Murphy Baseball, Vibe Volleyball, and Raga Yoga.

Contra Costa Industrial Park

Industrial
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Pittsburg, California

Loveridge Road

  • Originally built by the US Navy near the end of WWII, these buildings were used to manufacture trains.
  • The property is currently managed by Hall Equities Group and consists of 370,000 SF of industrial buildings on a 10-acre parcel.
  • The industrial park is leased to multiple tenants including Hitachi Rail USA (formerly known as Ansaldo Breda), who fabricate and repair BART and SF MUNI rail cars.

Muir Orthopaedic Specialists

Medical/Lab
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Ontario, CA

2405 Shadelands Drive

  • In 1998, Hall Equities Group purchased an 8.4-acre site in Walnut Creek’s Shadelands Business Park consisting of an 84,000 SF vacant credit card processing center.
  • The site was sub-divided to split off a separate 3.2-acre parcel, which was entitled by Hall Equities Group for a 45,000 SF modern medical office and surgery center.
  • Hall Equities Group sold the building to Muir Orthopaedic Group after completing construction.

THE ARROYO

Multi-Family
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Walnut Creek, CA

1250 Arroyo Way

  • The Arroyo is a ground-up luxury apartment development completed in 2016.
  • The complex consists of a modern, six-story, Class A steel and concrete, 100-unit luxury apartment complex.
  • The Arroyo features the city’s finest rooftop amenities, boasting views of the entire Diablo Valley and an expansive rooftop pool with an outdoor barbecue area, private cabanas, and fitness center.

MONTE VISTA CROSSING

Retail
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Turlock, California

W Monte Vista Ave

  • Monte Vista Crossings is considered one of the largest single-branded, open air shopping centers on the West Coast with over 1.4 million SF of retail and hospitality space.
  • Since development began in 2000, we have brought nationally known retailers such as Target, Lowes, Safeway, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Home Depot, Ross, Bed Bath and Beyond, Office Max, Old Navy, In n Out, JoAnn’s Fabrics, and many more to the City of Turlock.
  • A 78-room Holiday Inn Express and 81-room Fairfield Inn & Suites were also developed as part of this project.
  • The final phase of Monte Vista Crossings South was completed in 2017 with new retailers opening including F21 Red, rue21, Rack Room Shoes, and Petco.

Centre Lake Plaza

Office
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Ontario, CA

3401 Centrelake Drive

  • Centrelake Plaza is a state of the art, six-story, Class A, steel-frame office building located in the heart of the Inland Empire in Ontario, CA.
  • Constructed in 1989, the building features a stunning entrance with a flowing water fountain and a classic marble-tiled lobby. Unique to the area, the building features a rooftop heliport.
  • Centrelake was acquired by Hall Equities Group as part of a larger portfolio purchase from Arden Realty Corp in 2003. Operating successfully for years as a stabilized investment, the property was sold in 2008.