Mission Statement- Developing Excellence

To achieve excellence in sustainable urban environments for the public, our tenants and our partners.

To achieve superior risk adjusted economic returns for our investment partners and our team members.

To foster an atmosphere of intellectual vigor, exploration, passion and humor.

Our Team

The senior members of our team have been working together for over 8 years and have extensive experience in both the public and private sector.

Elliott Grimshaw

Elliott Grimshaw serves as Senior Project Manager. Mr. Grimshaw was born into a construction family and spent his youth working on a variety of residential projects. After graduating from high school he began his construction career by enlisting into the United States Naval Construction Battalions where he received formal training as a carpenter. After leaving the Navy he attended The California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, California and earned a Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineering. After graduating from Cal Poly he joined Bechtel’s Refinery and Chemical Division as a field engineer/superintendent and then joined Plant Construction Company in San Francisco.

Mr. Grimshaw joined Plant Construction Company as a Project Manager and quickly rose through the ranks to become a Vice President and one of the owners of the company. For over twenty years, Mr. Grimshaw worked on a variety of projects, including the renovation of 135 Post Street for Gumps, construction of a new office building at 275 Sacramento Street, construction of Prada’s signature store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and numerous other projects.

After spending more than a quarter of a century as a builder and contractor and having always wanted to approach projects from the development side, Mr. Grimshaw decided to leave Plant Construction Company and offer construction consulting services to project owners. Since leaving Plant, Mr. Grimshaw has worked with various owners/developers including: Seagate Properties, Lennar Community Developers, Prada, and Levin Menzies and Associates. He works as an integral member of Pacific Waterfront Partners' project team to assemble project consultant teams, site assessment, preparation of project proformas, manage the entitlement and permitting process, contractor selection and construction management.

Darren Bradley

Darren Bradley serves as Chief Financial Officer to Pacific Waterfront Partners. Prior to this position Mr. Bradley worked as the company's external accounting advisor with a San Francisco based accounting firm. He has over 13 years experience in public accounting, comprising of five years in Sydney, Australia and eight years in San Francisco, California. Eight of these years, Mr. Bradley has worked with a concentration in management consulting services.

Mr. Bradley has extensive experience in assisting medium-sized business with: growth management, business reorganizations, capital budgeting, financing, valuation services, merger and acquisition assistance, due diligence, forecasting, decision modeling and design and implementation of management reporting systems. Recent experience includes bankruptcy/liquidation solutions and management. Mr. Bradley holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Sydney, Australia and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accounts.

Debra Viall

Debra Viall has worked as a real estate investment consultant since 1989 and has served as Pacific Waterfront Partner's Senior Vice President of Investments since 2002. Her real estate experience includes due diligence and underwriting on commercial real estate acquisitions in excess of $2 billion, including suburban and urban office buildings, regional and community shopping centers, industrial properties, and mixed-used developments.

In addition, Ms. Viall has extensive portfolio analysis and reporting experience for institutional separate accounts, commingled funds and private REITs with real estate assets in excess of $4 billion. Other assignments have included REIT initial public offering pricing and S-11 documentation, market research, historic redevelopment and tax credit qualification, strategic planning for separate account holdings, analysis of joint venture documents, and extensive development of financial analysis models.