His vision of providing San Francisco-based national and multi-national corporations the opportunity to move their back office operations to competitively priced space in the suburbs transformed how companies would position their enterprises. Today it is Bishop Ranch, the largest development of its kind west of Chicago. Mehran envisioned the development of a 585-acre parcel in the San Ramon Valley as a world class business park.
In the early 1970s as president and CEO of Sunset Development Company, Mr. Few individuals have had the positive impact on their region and community as Mr. Mehran grew up in the Bay Area, graduated with honors from Harvard University and earned a law degree from Cambridge University in England. Alex Mehran is a distinguished business and civic leader whose achievements and contributions have greatly enhanced the economic vitality and quality of life of the citizens of Contra Costa County and the broader East Bay region.