DEVCON BUSILY WORKING ON BUILDINGS FOR FAIRFIELD'S NEW GREEN VALLEY CORPORATE CENTER

FAIRFIELD -- When it comes to project sizes, they don't come any bigger than the new Green Valley Corporate Center now taking shape in Fairfield. Devcon is currently working on the complex's Phase 12 Building, the first structure being built in the business park, which will contain two million square-feet of commercial space upon completion. The 103,000-square-foot Phase 12 Building is a three-story edifice with tilt-up panels, which contain numerous reveals and offset panels to create interesting shadow lines. The building also features the generous use of high performance, reflective glass windows. A completion date of mid-November 2002 has been set for this building whose tenant will be Copart, Inc., a firm relocating from Benicia.

"In addition to this structure, we've started work on Building 5 of Phase I," noted Project Manager Peter Copriviza. "This is a two-story, 54,454-square-foot, tilt-up building. The second floor of this building has already been leased to St. Paul Insurance, and it should be finished by the end of 2002."

With this massive undertaking, Midwest developer Harvey Shein and his firm, Green Valley LLC, along with its partner, Quadrangle Development Co., are the first to build Class A office buildings in Solano County, a region better known for its manufacturing and blue collar jobs. However, Shein and his cohorts believe the region has been transformed by an influx of white-collar homeowners drawn to Solano County by more affordable housing. They would like to keep these Solano County residents from commuting to other Bay Area cities as they are currently doing. With such an impressive and large-scale development, Shein hopes to keep these Solano residents home and off the roads, working in the same community where they live.

Milpitas-based Devcon is the largest general building contractor based in Silicon Valley, and it maintains a regional office in Santa Cruz to manage projects along the coast. With building experience throughout Northern California, Devcon has constructed industrial parks, commercial centers and landmark office buildings, in all totaling some 35 million square feet of shells and interiors.