BURDELL
PROPERTIES, a California corporation, founded in 1967, is a real estate
syndication and asset management firm specializing in the acquisition
and joint venture management of investment properties in the Southwest,
West Coast, and Pacific Northwest Coast areas of the United States, and
the Western Cape of South Africa. The corporate staff is headquartered
in San Rafael, California, a Marin County city 15 miles north of San
Francisco.
CALPLANS PARTNERS is
a California general partnership composed of David W. Jefferson and John
G. Rauck. Its principal business is serving as the managing or
co-managing general partner of various agricultural and commercial real
estate investment partnerships formed between 1972 and 1986.
BURDELL MANAGEMENT,
LTD., formed in 1987, is a California limited partnership; Burdell
Properties is the general partner and Calplans Partners, Dave Jefferson,
John Rauck, Joanne Banke-Clark and Don Groth are the limited partners.
Its principal business is serving as the managing general
partner/sponsor of all real estate investment partnerships formed since
1987.
For many years, our vineyard partnerships were one of Robert
Mondavi Winery's largest growers of grapes in Napa County, and La
Crema's (Kendall-Jackson) largest supplier of Chardonnay in Sonoma
County. (We have also sold substantial grape quantities to Korbel, Simi,
Fetzer, Turning Leaf Reserve (Gallo) and Beringer wineries in past
years.) We now sell our grapes to Jordan, Buehler,
Irony Wines, Honig, Bennett Family Wines, Hertzog, White Oak and numerous smaller wineries.