Matt White is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Basin Street Properties. As the Chairman and Chief Executive, he is responsible for both developing and managing Basin Street’s strategic direction and the direction of its investments. Finding new projects and identifying original opportunities also fall within his purview. Under White’s leadership, Basin Street has grown to encompass major investments throughout Northern California and Northern Nevada which include a broad range of Class-A office, mixed use, industrial, retail, apartment and hotel properties.
White began at Basin Street Properties 20 years ago as a project manager, handling the leasing and construction in Sonoma, Marin and Napa Counties. He later became chief financial officer where, among other duties he established and managed the Basin Street Properties Investor Program, performing assessment and analysis for acquisitions and providing strategic real estate advice and support to investors. In 2005, White negotiated the sale of 36 buildings, totaling 1.4 million square feet, of Basin Street’s North Bay (CA) portfolio in the largest transaction in the North Bay Area’s history. In 2012, he negotiated the re-acquisition of much of that portfolio at a greatly discounted price.
Matt earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Boston University. Dedicated to his family and small mountain community, he currently sits on the Board of Trustees of Lake Tahoe School. Additionally, Matt enjoys supporting his two children’s sports activities, including performing the duties of assistant coach for the high school varsity basketball team. In his free time, he is an avid cyclist and skier and enjoys the challenge of a good basketball game or mountain bike race.
Blake has over 30 years of successful real estate and development experience as a Managing Partner at Mountainside Partners and Managing Partner and CFO at East West Partners. His involvement in the growth and expansion at East West Partners gives him a deep understanding and appreciation of the importance of building a strong culture across markets and departments.
Blake was responsible for the oversight and management of multiple development projects in the Lake Tahoe area, including The Village at Northstar, The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe, Gray’s Crossing and Old Greenwood. He started his career as a CPA at Arthur Anderson & Co. and has extensive experience in all facets of real estate development including feasibility analysis, acquisition, planning, entitlements, financing, design, construction, sales and marketing and investor relations.
Blake is a graduate of the University of Washington, Foster School of Business. He is an Associate Member of the Urban Land Institute. He is actively involved in the community and has served on numerous foundation and community association boards. Blake and his wife reside in Incline Village where they raised their two daughters and continue to enjoy the active outdoor lifestyle. Blake can be found hiking, biking, golfing, skiing and occasionally pretending to still be able to shoot a basketball.
Contact Information
Email: blake@basin-street.com
Office: 775.954.2900 Ext 2860
Scott provides leadership for a broad spectrum of functions within Basin Street including the management of leasing teams, both in-house and third party, and responsibility for the development and execution of leasing strategy for over five million square feet of commercial real estate. Additionally, he is responsible for positioning assets related marketing programs, as well as the oversight of administrative, legal counsel, and property management personnel associated with those functions.
Scott began his career at Basin Street Properties 24 years ago as a project manager, going onto become leasing director, which lead to his current positions of Vice President and now Chief Portfolio Officer. During his tenure, he has negotiated leases totaling over 8 million square feet and played a direct role in the entitlement, development, acquisition and disposition of over 6 million square feet. Stranzl has built long-term relationships with companies such as Cowgirl Creamery, Medtronic, Robert Mondovi, LP Insurance, 3G Studios, Fennemore Craig Attorneys At Law, Cisco Systems and Granite Construction. Following the Basin Street tradition of growing with key tenants, he has taken firms like Enphase Energy and Cyan from their infancy to building multi-building campuses.
Scott earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with an emphasis on Environment from San Diego State University. He is a former member of Leadership Napa and was the recipient of the Forty Under 40 award in the North Bay. Committed to the industry, Scott is also an active member of NAIOP. A strong belief in community involvement and truly committed to his family, Scott contributes time and resources to the Parasol Fund, Lake Tahoe School and the Food Bank of Northern Nevada. Through the years he has coached youth baseball, basketball and soccer and served on the board of the Novato Little League as well as the Sonoma Education Foundation. Currently he serves on the Board of Directors of the Incline Education Fund and is a Nevada Promise Mentor for Truckee Meadows Community College. As a passionate year-round outdoorsman he can be found mountain biking, backpacking, fishing, sailing and skiing.
Contact Information:
Email: Scott@basin-street.com
Office: 775.954.2900 Ext 2828
Cell: 707.529.3712
Stephanie brings more than 28 years of commercial real estate experience to the position of Chief Operating Officer at Basin Street Properties. In this role, she oversees the property management, engineering and administrative departments that perform the day-to-day operations of over five million square feet of commercial real estate that includes mixed-use, office, retail, industrial, and high-end residential units located throughout Northern California and Northern Nevada. She is also responsible for the analysis of operating expenses for prospective acquisitions and the integration of new properties into the Basin Street portfolio which includes hiring and structuring property management and engineering teams and operating the projects long term to meet financial goals.
Burlingame joined Basin Street Properties as a Portfolio Manager in 2003. Within a few years, she was promoted to Director of Property Management and soon after, Vice President of Operations. While with Basin Street she has been closely involved with growing the portfolio in Northern California and Northern Nevada.
Prior to Basin Street, she held the positions of Property Manager and Portfolio Manager with Insignia/ESG where she was responsible for a portfolio of office and light industrial property in the North Bay. In her earlier years, Burlingame developed experience in property management with leading firms such as Grubb & Ellis Company, Scherzer Real Estate Group and Hogland, Bogart & Bertero.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
Contact Information:
Email: Stephanie@basin-street.com
Office: 775.954.2900
As Vice President of Acquisitions & Development, Frank manages the design and initial phases of ground-up development projects as well as overseeing the due diligence and transaction management for the company’s property acquisitions. Since his arrival at Basin Street Properties in 1994, Frank has played a direct role in most functions of the company including entitlements, construction, leasing and property management.
Frank is responsible for the successful execution of development projects across each of the company’s product types including Class A office buildings and campuses, multifamily projects (both garden style and urban core), hotels, and light industrial properties. Frank’s role also includes identifying, evaluating, and advising on new acquisitions for the company.
Since his arrival at Basin Street in 1994, Frank has helped guide the acquisition and development of more than five million square feet of space. In addition, he has overseen the entitlement and/or acquisition and development of multiple select service hotels and apartment projects and has a lead role in identifying and implementing upgrades of tenant amenities within the company’s acquisitions. With more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience, Frank has had a direct role in most functions of the company including entitlements, construction, leasing, and property management.
Major development projects include Petaluma’s Theatre District which started with the acquisition and repositioning of a mostly vacant feed mill-turned-retail project and finished with the acquisition, razing, and redevelopment of six square blocks of underutilized, functionally-obsolete and contaminated properties into a thriving district of offices, restaurants, apartments and multiplex theater. Other more recent projects include the repositioning and re-entitlement of two office pads for a Class A 90-unit multifamily project and a 140-key Hilton Home2 Suites Hotel.
Frank holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Chico State. He has served on many economic development boards and is a member of ULI Sacramento. He is also president and co-founder of his son’s soccer club and can be found in his free time on challenging mountain bike rides, reading, or cooking for his wife and two children.
Contact Information:
Email: Frank@basin-street.com
Phone: 530.321.1179
As the vice president of construction for Basin Street Properties, Matthew Sherrill manages all new office and hospitality construction including capital improvements for new acquisitions and tenant improvements for all operating properties in Basin Street’s holdings. He also oversees the project management staff in both California and Nevada.
Bringing over 30 years of experience, Sherrill began at Basin Street in 2003 to manage Basin Street’s construction of the Theatre District development in Petaluma, CA. This major downtown revitalization project that consisted of Theatre Square’s retail, office and apartment homes; Theatre District Parking Garage providing 500+ free parking stalls; Boulevard Cinemas, Petaluma’s only multiplex cinemas; and the Waterfront Offices and Residences, a three-story ‘Class-A’ office building and apartment homes. The project also included working with the Redevelopment Agency as the City funded new infrastructure and utility renovations within the five-block area.
Prior to Basin Street, Sherrill was a principal with CMA, a San Francisco-based development management and real estate consulting firm he helped establish in 1993. While there he was the principal-in-charge on a variety of development and renovation projects for clients including the 1100 acre office campus of LucasFilm in Marin County which encompassed an underground parking structure, office, screening room, dining building, daycare-fitness center, archives building and 121 acre-foot reservoir over a five-year span. Other clients include PG&E, the San Francisco Fairmont Hotel, Sun Microsystems and Golden Gate National Park Association.
Matthew holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in construction management from California State University, Sacramento, and is an active member of the Project Management Institute. Additionally, he is a member and volunteer project manager for both the Boys and Girls Club of Petaluma and St. Vincent Parish in Petaluma. In his free time he operates an equestrian facility and thoroughly enjoys a competitive game of basketball or a round of golf.
Contact Information:
Email: msherrill@basin-street.com
Office: 707.795.4477 Ext 7800
As Vice President of Marketing, Mike is responsible for the development and execution of marketing strategies, press relations and corporate sponsorship at both the corporate and property level. Mike moved in-house with Basin Street in 2015 after spending 13 years at Smith + Jones Marketing where he focused on building hospitality, real estate and tourism brands across digital and traditional mediums. Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a minor in Philosophy from the University of California at Davis. Mike lives in Lake Tahoe with his wife Sarah and sons Tanner, Tommy and Ryan. In his free time, Mike coaches and plays basketball.
Contact Information:
Email: mwilliams@basin-street.com
Office: 775.954.2900 Ext 2821
Marty has over fourteen years in real estate finance and leadership positions with private owners and developers of Class A commercial office, industrial, retail and hospitality properties in Northern California. His expertise includes partnership reporting, financing, real estate leasing, sales, acquisitions, development, and asset and property management.
In his most recent position at Buzz Oates, Marty worked on some of the largest industrial development projects in the greater Sacramento area. A partial list of Marty’s experience with newly constructed buildings include the 597,000 square foot Pacific Cycle building, a 320,000 square foot Amazon building, a 128,000 square foot WunderBar building in Vacaville, the 92,000 square foot Sonoma Harvest Olive Oil building in Fairfield and a 451,000 sf Whirlpool building in Stockton.
In his free time Marty enjoys spending time with his wife and six year old son, spending time on the golf course, and a variety of other outdoor activities.
Contact Information:
Email: mwillett@basin-street.com
Office: 775.954.2900 Ext 2878
Real estate is never a solo effort. Our success has always grown out of close collaboration among executives who respect each other’s values and abilities. At Basin Street, the talent and expertise of our team makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts.