Last Thursday night was the big Grand Opening Party for Keller Williams Realty in our new offices at the Rose Garden (760 Camino Ramon, Danville, CA).

What a party and what a welcome from the community and the Rose Garden merchants. Esin, Amicis, Bittersweet and Amaranta helped with the food preparations.

Navlet’s loaned us some hose to clean up construction dust from the sidewalks and parking lot. They also loaned us some plants to spruce up the place.

The Balloonman provided the balloon decor. Cathy Lee from CLDesign Services provide centerpieces for the tables and  Julie Giampoli from Showcase Your Place provided flower arrangements.

A special shout out to Howie Kaplan and Pyramid Breweries for their liquid gold libations.

We must have had 300 to 400 people come by and wish us well.

Ever the networker, I used the opportunity to distribute a few post cards on our gorgeous listing at 3661 Treat Boulevard in Concord.

Our fellow Realtors, mortgage brokers and other professionals from the industry were impressed with the new digs. More than a few were surprised that Keller Williams is expanding in this down market.

The party was an over-the-top success. We want to thank everyone that helped and all that attended.

We feel that this new location will be another big plus for Keller Williams Realty in Danville.

Local Danville Realtors Scrutinized by FBI

HarperMees & Associates, a top producing team at Keller Williams Realty in Danville, CA was interrogated yesterday at the home of Paul & Ginny Mees by the FBI.

Four of the principles of HarperMees & Associates were sitting outside on the patio of a home in Crow Canyon Country Club enjoying a pizza and salad from Amicis (Rose Garden) when the Fed showed up with his wife and Realtor to look the house over for a temporary rental situation.

The Meeses are moving back into Greenbrook next month and an FBI agent and his wife relocating from the FBI’s office in Virginia are looking for a temporary rental to get them through 30 days or so while they close on a house in Danville or San Ramon.

No one was cuffed, beaten with a phone book or shipped off to Guatanamo Bay. In fact, we had a nice chat with the FBI agent while we munched on Amicis’ wonderful combo pizza. Paul and Ginny gave the couple the scoop on neighborhood playmates for the relocating children and details about the house.

It’s not often that an FBI agent shows up at our door, so we just had to blog it!

BTW - the FBI agent's Realtor called to let ask if they could come over, but hey - that doesn't sound near as exciting.

After 4 hours of meetings this morning, HarperMees’ 5 principals went to Amicis at the Rose Garden for lunch. We’ve written about Amicis before and also noted that Keller Williams is moving its Danville market center to the Rose Garden.

While dining outside at Amicis, I noted that Amaranta was open. Paul said he drove by this weekend and Amaranta was packed. We all enjoy Mexican cuisine and decided to add Amaranta to our “must try” list.

After lunch, Paul, Ginny and I walked over to check out the menu at Amaranta Cocina Mexicana.

We talked briefly with Heather Gonzales, took a few pictures and picked up copies of Amaranta’s To Go Store Menu and Catering Menu. The To Go menu has prices ranging from $2 to $10 while the catering platters range from $28 to $83.

As you can see, the inside is spacious and the patio looks like a great place to kick back and have a few margaritas.

The Rose Garden along with Amicis, Amaranta and (soon) Keller Williams Danville is located on the southeast corner of Sycamore Valley Road and Camino Ramon.

The Keller Williams Realty Market Center, currently located at 500 La Gonda Way in Danville, California, will soon be moving to the Rose Garden in Danville. The Rose Garden is a new commercial development at the corner of Sycamore Valley Road in Danville. We wrote about the Rose Garden before after dining at Amicis.

This will be a great move for Keller Williams Realty as the Rose Garden office space will allow KW to configure the space to suit our needs better than the La Gonda location. Keller Williams will be occupying most of the upper floor of this building located on the corner of Rose Garden and Camino Ramon directly across the street from Denny’s and the Danville Best Western.

The convenience of the restaurants and cafes at the Rose Garden will be a plus for the Keller Williams’ Realtors and our clients relocating from out of the area will find the Best Western convenient.

Our new office space includes a huge outdoor patio which will have tables with Keller Williams’ red umbrellas. We will also be able to have exterior signs which was not possible at the old location.

Another nice thing about moving is that we will be able to upgrade the new space to newest standards in networking and wiring.

The real estate agents of Keller Williams Danville are very excited about the move – and – I think the folks at Amicis are too – TGIF, send up the pizzas!

Every Monday the Harper-Mees Team gathers over at the Mees’ home in Danville for a team meeting. These meetings usually last a couple of hours, but today’s went four!

After 2.5 hours, everyone was hungry, so we jumped in the car and drove over to Amicis in the brand new Rose Garden commercial center at the corner of Sycamore Valley Road and Camino Ramon in Danville, CA.

It was a gorgeous sunny day, so we sat outside and continued our team meeting during lunch. We split the large antipasta salad, a veggie pizza, and a margherita pizza – we were hungry real estate agents!

The Danville location of Amicis is so new that it is not listed as a location yet on the company’s website, but we all agreed the food was great and this location should soon be a popular dining spot. The Iron Horse Trail runs right behind the restaurant, so you can easily bike there.

Our waiter was Shaun Williams, who took very good care of us. Coincidentally, Shaun’s parents are Cindy and Gene Williams, real estate agents with Keller Williams TriValley Realty in Pleasanton, CA.

Paul and I walked around The Rose Garden to see who has leased property so far. We saw signs for:

• Cafe Esin
• Baby & Kids Company
• Navlet’s
• Elisawen
• Robert Scott Face/Body
• O’My Sole
• Bittersweet
• Amaranta Cocina Mexicana

Navlet’s has been in this location for years, but has a new look. The rest of these are new tenants and of all of them only O’My Sole has posted the new location on their website properly. (Being the Internet marketing guy for the team, this boggles my mind!)

Sycamore and Camino Ramon is going to be a busy corner when The Rose Garden is in full bloom. This is the best thing that could have happened for the Best Western Sycamore Inn. They will have an assortment of fine dining right across the street for their guests.