Placeworks LLC is a real estate development company that creates quality mixed-use infill developments.

Stuart Rickard, the firm's principal, has extensive experience designing, entitling, and building award-winning developments. He has been responsible for implementing over $100 million in real estate development projects that involve a variety of uses, including residential, retail, office, and industrial.  He holds an MBA from U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a B.A. in Environmental Design, also from U.C. Berkeley.

981 Park Street, Alameda , CA 94501

 (510) 499-9400 phone (510) 217-9560 fax

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We require from buildings ... two kinds of goodness:

first, the doing their practical duty well:

then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which

last is itself another form of duty.

- John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)