Long-term Value Through
Lasting Relationships
We believe commercial real estate is a local business where the best opportunities are realized through long lasting partnerships, and decades of experience over several market cycles.
With over 40 years of experience in Commercial Real Estate in the Bay Area, Woodstock’s mission is to create long term value for our investment partners and for the communities in which we work.
ABOUT US
ROOTED IN THE BAY AREA SINCE 1995.
Our roots and community involvement run deep around the Bay Area, which provides us with a unique historical perspective of where the Market has been, and more importantly, where it’s going.
We seek opportunities that represent the future of the way people want to work, innovate, and create. Our due diligence and underwriting is completed with rigorous data and financial analysis but is supported by our knowledge and experience.
Our Vision
Our Services
Investments
Woodstock has a long and successful track record of creating and enhancing value through several market cycles.
Woodstock understands that real estate is a local business, and our relationships with brokers, tenants, city officials and financial partners have allowed us to build a significant portfolio and pipeline of high quality assets.
Development
Woodstock has managed the entitlement of over 3 million square feet of Office and Life Science product in the San Francisco Bay Area and has over 2 million square feet in the development pipeline. Woodstock provides a broad range of Development and Advisory services, including:
- Land Planning
- Highest & Best Use Studies
- Project & Portfolio Evaluations
- Complex Entitlements & Municipal Approvals
- Management of Architectural, Engineering Teams
- Construction/Project Management
- Capital Markets
Build-to-Suit
Woodstock’s Build-to-Suit Program delivers reposition, renovation, or ground up development opportunities to tenants in markets where existing facilities do not adequately meet the tenant’s specific needs.
Our tenant-driven approach allows us to design a facility from the inside out, maximizing efficiency to create ideal, long-term work places.
Property Management
Woodstock Development offers property management services for its portfolio investments and for selected third party landlords. Services include:
- Income/Expense Budgets
- Coordination of Repairs & Maintenance
- Operating Expense Reconciliations
- Implementation of Tenant & Capital Improvements
- Leasing Services
- Monthly Reports
- Management of Service Contracts & Contractors
- Invoicing & Collection of Rents & Operating Expense
- Maintenance of Tenant Files
The Team
Local Knowledge, Local Experience, Local & National Partners
For over 25 years our team has been developing Office and Life Science in the Bay Area.
Kirk has over 40 years of experience in Commercial Real Estate Development and Investments in the San Francisco Bay Area. He founded Woodstock in 1995 after 15 years with Coldwell Banker Commercial (now CBRE). At Coldwell Banker, he co-founded the Life Science Practice and the Corporate Services Group which provided Strategic Planning and Development Services to Gilead Sciences, Oral-B/Gillette, Charles Schwab and many others. At Woodstock, Kirk is primarily responsible for partner/joint venture management and strategic oversight of all development and asset management.
Kirk was born in San Francisco and graduated from St Ignatius College Prep where he is currently a Trustee and Chair of the Investment/Endowment Committee. He graduated from Santa Clara University and is a past Trustee, Investment/Endowment Committee member and Chair of the Board of Regents.
Kirk was also a long time member of the Board of Directors of Boston Private Bank (formerly Borel Bank). There, he served on the Executive Committee and Chaired the Directors Loan Committee.
Locally, Kirk serves on the Board of Crescent Porter Hale Foundation in San Francisco (Finance/Investment Committee) and he is also a past Board Chair of Peninsula Family Service in San Mateo and remains an Honorary Life Board Member.
Kirk resides in Hillsborough (suburb of San Francisco) where he and his wife raised their 5 children.
Email: ksyme@woodstockdevelopment.com
William joined Woodstock Development in 2012 and is responsible for managing new partner relationships and overseeing the leasing strategy for portfolio assets. He also works with the team to expand the firm’s portfolio and development pipeline through new acquisitions.
Prior to Woodstock, William spent nearly five years in the San Francisco Peninsula office of BT Commercial (now Cushman Wakefield) where he was a leasing broker focusing on occupier services.
Prior to Woodstock, William spent nearly five years in the San Francisco Peninsula office of BT Commercial (now Cushman Wakefield) where he was a leasing broker focusing on occupier services.
William holds a Bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University. While not in the office, he spends most of his time with his wife and two girls in the Presidio of San Francisco and Crissy Field.
Email: wsyme@woodstockdevelopment.com
Robert joined Woodstock Development in 2017. His responsibilities include overseeing the management and performance of Woodstock’s portfolio assets.
Prior to Woodstock Development, Robert worked for Cushman & Wakefield where he advised both tenants and landlords on the leasing and sale of Office and R&D properties. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University and lives in San Mateo with his wife and two children.
Email: rrussell@woodstockdevelopment.com
Andres focuses on entitlements and land use as well as acquisitions and leasing.
Prior to Woodstock, Andres worked as a development director on behalf of a regional portfolio focused on mixed use development. He began his career practicing law at a global firm representing institutional lenders and servicers. He is an active member of the Urban Land Institute and SAMCEDA and stays involved with his alma mater, St Ignatius College Prep as an alumni board member.
Andres graduated from the University of San Diego where he earned a degree in International Relations. He lives in San Mateo with his wife and two children.
Email: andres@woodstockdevelopment.com
Lisa joined Woodstock Development in May of 2003. She is a licensed real estate broker with over 20 years of real estate and property management experience.
She began her career in Houston working on behalf of a national investor and operator. Lisa leads Woodstock's property management team. She also manages relationships with Woodstock's lenders, consultants, and various vendors. Lisa attended Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
Email: lstephenson@woodstockdevelopment.com
Irina is a Senior Property Accountant and joined Woodstock in 2019. She has been working in the real estate sector since 2012, and has over 8 years of property management and real estate accounting experience and related software knowledge. She holds a BA in Accounting and Auditing, and an MS in Economics. She is currently studying for her CPA license. In her free time she enjoys being outdoors, and spending time with her friends and family.
Email: ibetina@woodstockdevelopment.com
Alberto serves as Woodstock’s Controller and is responsible for overseeing financial reporting, tax compliance, entity maintenance, risk management, payroll and human resources, IT applications platform and reporting, as well as special projects for Woodstock’s strategic partnerships.
Before joining Woodstock, Alberto worked as a Controller & Risk Manager for over twenty years with Wilson Meaney specializing with a particular focus on large mixed-use commercial development projects in the Bay Area.
Alberto is an active member of the Urban Land Institute. He is also involved with various organizations including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR), Latinos in Finance (LIF), and Stanford Professionals in Real Estate (SPIRE).
He attended Stanford University where he earned a degree in Quantitative Economics as well as an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He lives in Burlingame.
Email: amedina@woodstockdevelopment.com
About Woodstock
Woodstock, founded in 1995 by Kirk Syme, is a full service Commercial Real Estate Investment/Development firm specializing in premier Office and Life Science properties in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kirk and Woodstock’s current principals are second and third generation Bay Area real estate professionals. Kirk oversees all company operations and investment/development decisions and all strategic partner/capital relationships.
For over 25 years, Woodstock has completed several premier Office and Life Science projects in the Bay Area totaling over 3 million square feet principally on the San Francisco Peninsula and in the East Bay.
And currently, Woodstock has over 2 million square feet of Life Science in its development pipeline.
Successful Development Assignments
