Nice knowing you, Raj
I helped teach this guy how to broker. Hell, I shot pool with him, went out drinking with him, and ultimately ended up learning from him.
FUCKFUCKFUCK!!!!!
SR builder Raj Gulati dies at 39
By KEVIN MCCALLUM
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Developer Raj Gulati, the 39-year-old builder with plans for a high rise project that would reshape the downtown Santa Rosa skyline, died Sunday morning at his home of an apparent heart attack.
Friend and business partner Terri Stark said Gulati was with his wife, Errin, at their Fountaingrove home when he died around 8 a.m.
"He was loved by everybody in this town," said Stark.
Gulati was seeking approval for a modern 10-story mixed-use building on Riley Street. The project would have been the tallest building this city has seen since a pair of senior apartment towers were built in the 1970s.
The project would have added to the more than 100,000-square-feet of office space Gulati gained control of downtown in just a few short years as a developer.
In a 2004 profile in The Press Democrat, Gulati, a former commercial real estate broker with Keegan & Coppin, said he enjoyed the potential being a developer offered him.
"It's fun," he said. "Really, the sky's the limit in this business."
In addition to his skills and ambition as a building developer, Gulati helped support Stark and her husband, Mark, in their restaurant business, Terri Stark said. He was an investor in their popular Willi's Seafood and Raw in Healdsburg, which they closed in his honor Sunday, and was a partner in Barcode, the trendy bar in Santa Rosa the Starks opened last year.
He was also working with the Starks on opening a steakhouse in west Santa Rosa, Terri Stark said.
She described Gulati as a caring man with passion, integrity and a bright future who helped inspire them in their restaurant business.
"He changed our lives," she said.
FUCKFUCKFUCK!!!!!
SR builder Raj Gulati dies at 39
By KEVIN MCCALLUM
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Developer Raj Gulati, the 39-year-old builder with plans for a high rise project that would reshape the downtown Santa Rosa skyline, died Sunday morning at his home of an apparent heart attack.
Friend and business partner Terri Stark said Gulati was with his wife, Errin, at their Fountaingrove home when he died around 8 a.m.
"He was loved by everybody in this town," said Stark.
Gulati was seeking approval for a modern 10-story mixed-use building on Riley Street. The project would have been the tallest building this city has seen since a pair of senior apartment towers were built in the 1970s.
The project would have added to the more than 100,000-square-feet of office space Gulati gained control of downtown in just a few short years as a developer.
In a 2004 profile in The Press Democrat, Gulati, a former commercial real estate broker with Keegan & Coppin, said he enjoyed the potential being a developer offered him.
"It's fun," he said. "Really, the sky's the limit in this business."
In addition to his skills and ambition as a building developer, Gulati helped support Stark and her husband, Mark, in their restaurant business, Terri Stark said. He was an investor in their popular Willi's Seafood and Raw in Healdsburg, which they closed in his honor Sunday, and was a partner in Barcode, the trendy bar in Santa Rosa the Starks opened last year.
He was also working with the Starks on opening a steakhouse in west Santa Rosa, Terri Stark said.
She described Gulati as a caring man with passion, integrity and a bright future who helped inspire them in their restaurant business.
"He changed our lives," she said.