Concord, California
Concord's most valuable private ground is retail and apartments: Taubman's Sunvalley mall tops the roll, while the largest piece of land in the city, the former Concord Naval Weapons Station, is still the Navy's or the regional park district's.
7 buildings · 6 with an owner established · 17 sources · 5 tier B · 2 tier A · prepared 2026-10-31
Can you find out who owns it?
California has no public register of title, and Contra Costa County does not put owners' names on the open web. Title is proved by deeds recorded with the County Clerk-Recorder, whose plain copies cost $5 for the first page and $2 for each further page; the Clerk-Recorder's and Assessor's websites both block automated readers. Each sale pays the County's documentary transfer tax of $0.55 per $500; the Recorder collects extra city transfer taxes only for Richmond and El Cerrito, none for Concord (per Deeds.com's summary of the County schedule). The largest owners are known from the City's annual financial report, which names the top ten taxpayers by assessed value.
Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title searchRecorder document plain copy $5.00 first page, $2.00 each additional page (Gov. Code §27366), per Deeds.com's Contra Costa page 'checked October 2026 against official publications' (the County's own Recorder Fee Schedule 2026 PDF sits behind an AWS WAF CAPTCHA)
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesNo transaction data published
Sites that forbid taking their data
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- contracosta.news — “you agree not to: ... use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service – unless expressly permitted by ContraCosta.news Connect”
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunvalley Shopping Center Off Interstate 680 (Willow Pass Rd / Contra Costa Blvd), Concord, CA 1,430,056 sq ft GLA (Simon 2024 10-K); 1,333,000 sq ft (Wikipedia) |
Retail | Taubman Land Associates LLC (the land, under a ground lease) Land: 50% through an affiliate of TRG, 50% by a Taubman family entity (Taubman 10-K 2019) City FY2024-25 taxpayer table (s2): 'Taubman Land Associates LLC' is Concord's largest taxpayer, $249.0M (1.11%); also first in 2015-16 ($176.0M). Taubman's 2019 10-K (s3): TRG held 50% of Sunvalley, a Taubman family trust the rest, and 'Sunvalley is subject to a ground lease on the land, which is 50% owned through an affiliate of TRG and 50% by' a Taubman family entity. Simon's 2024 10-K (s4): 'Ground Lease (2061)', Simon's effective interest 44.0%, 4.44% mortgage of $69.3M due 09/01/25; Sunvalley is gone from Simon's 2025 table (s5). Wikipedia (s6) names Spinoso Real Estate Group as owner and manager. The mall's post-2025 leasehold owner is not established. |
Private company | —B |
| Former Concord Naval Weapons Station (Inland Area) North and east Concord, between Willow Pass Rd, Port Chicago Hwy and Hwy 4 5,028 acres (Inland Area, inside city limits) |
Land | United States of America (Department of the Navy), pending conveyance; parkland conveyed to East Bay Regional Park District Wikipedia (s9): the Inland Area, 5,028 acres, lies within city limits; the Tidal Area is the Army's Military Ocean Terminal Concord. The base closed in 2005 (s8). ACFR (s2): the East Bay Regional Park District 'took possession of the former Concord Naval Weapons Station from the National Park Service and Navy in 2020' (2,256 acres of regional park in the city); in FY2024-25 the City sent the Navy its Economic Development Conveyance application and financial offer. The Reuse Project site (s7): the Navy approved the term sheet on 'the price and terms of payment for the 2,422 acres'; Brookfield Properties is the master developer. The Navy holds title until transfer. |
Government | —A |
| Buchanan Field Airport (CCR) Concord / Pacheco, CA 495 acres |
Civic | Contra Costa County Wikipedia (s10): public airport, owner Contra Costa County, opened 1947 on the former Concord Army Air Base; 'Buchanan Field covers 495 acres' with four runways, the longest 5,001 ft. The County's own airport pages (contracosta.ca.gov) are behind a Cloudflare block, so the County record was not read. |
Government | —B |
| Toyota Pavilion at Concord (Concord Pavilion) 2000 Kirker Pass Rd, Concord, CA 94521 12,500 seats |
Civic | City of Concord Wikipedia (s11): 'owned by the City of Concord and operated by Live Nation'; opened May 1975, designed by Frank Gehry, capacity 12,500. The City's own committee page (s12) confirms Live Nation as 'the Manager of the Pavilion', appointing one of five members of the City's outreach committee. The City's ACFR (s2) confirms it: 'The City leases the Concord Pavilion to a third party' (original 15-year term, 3.5 years left at 30 Jun 2025; $870,558 lease revenue in FY2025), and the City's 2021 certificates of participation ($93.2M outstanding) are secured partly by its financing corporation's interest in the Pavilion and the Police Station. |
Government | —A |
| John Muir Medical Center, Concord Concord, CA (former Mount Diablo Medical Center) 244 beds |
Institutional | John Muir Health Wikipedia (s13): John Muir Health, a nonprofit, 'was formed in 1997 from the merger of John Muir Medical Center (based in Walnut Creek) and Mount Diablo Medical Center (based in neighboring Concord)'; 'John Muir Medical Center, Concord, is a 244-bed acute care facility'. The City's ACFR (s2) ranks John Muir Medical Ctr joint first among Concord employers in 2025 (1,000-4,999 staff). Title to the campus was not checked on a County record (County sites blocked). |
Institution | —B |
| The Veranda 2001-2003 Diamond Blvd, Concord, CA 94520 |
Retail | Concord CenterCal, LLC The Chamber of Commerce member listing (s14) is headed 'Concord CenterCal, LLC - The Veranda' at 2001-2003 Diamond Blvd: 'a newly imagined mixed-use retail center with open-air shopping and dining, gourmet grocery'. On the City's FY2024-25 top-taxpayer table (s2) 'Concord Centercal Owner LLC' ranks second in Concord at $205,000,000 assessed (0.91%), up from $69,203,965 (sixth) in 2015-16; the Successor Agency's project-area table lists 'Concord Centercal LLC' with one parcel at $205,000,000. CenterCal Properties is the sponsor named in the entity; its partners and stake were not read in any filing. |
Developer | —B |
| The Willows Shopping Center Along Interstate 680, Concord, CA |
Retail | Not established a paid title search would answer it Wikipedia (s15): built 1976, opened 1977 as a 'town and country' outdoor centre of about 100 stores, developed by Eastman Concord Ventures; tenants include Old Navy, ULTA Beauty, REI. The City's FY2024-25 top-taxpayer table (s2) lists a taxpayer named 'Willows Center Concord' fifth at $122,007,400 (commercial; eighth in 2015-16 at $63.2M), and the Successor Agency table gives it 2 parcels at $122.0M. No record opened ties that taxpayer to the centre's parcels or names its members, so the owner is left blank; a recorded deed (paid copy) would settle it. |
Private company | —B |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
From the City of Concord ACFR for FY2024-25 (statistical tables from HdL Companies and the County Auditor-Controller). Values are Proposition 13 assessed values, not market prices.
City assessed value, FY2025$23.64B
Secured $22.99B ($20.34B city + $2.65B former redevelopment increment) plus unsecured $0.66B; up from $14.70B in FY2016 (ACFR Table 5, County Auditor-Controller).
Highest-assessed taxpayer$249.0M
Taubman Land Associates LLC (land under Sunvalley), 1.11% of the city's $22.47B (ACFR Table 7).
Highest single parcel named$205.0M
Concord CenterCal LLC's one parcel in the former redevelopment area (The Veranda), FY2024-25 (Successor Agency Table 5).
Former redevelopment project area$2.99B
Total assessed value FY2024-25, of which $2.65B is increment; its ten largest taxpayers hold 35.5% (Successor Agency Table 5).
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Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
The biggest holders of land in Concord are public. The Navy still owns the 2,422 acres of the former weapons station that the City is buying for redevelopment, and the East Bay Regional Park District took about 2,256 acres of it as parkland in 2020; the County owns the 495-acre airport. Among private owners, the most valuable ground is the land under Sunvalley mall, held by a Taubman entity. Acreage comes from the City's ACFR, the Reuse Project and Wikipedia; the County roll, which would give parcel counts, is not open to scripts.
| Name | Type | Holdings |
|---|---|---|
| United States of America (Department of the Navy) The Reuse Project site (s7) reports the Navy approved the term sheet setting 'the price and terms of payment for the 2,422 acres of property to be redeveloped by the Reuse Project under an Economic Development Conveyance'. Wikipedia (s9) puts the whole Inland Area, inside city limits, at 5,028 acres. The ACFR (s2) says the City submitted its EDC application and initial financial offer in FY2024-25. |
Government | 2,422 acres awaiting conveyance (former CNWS Inland Area, 5,028 acres in all)A |
| East Bay Regional Park District ACFR Table 19 (s2): regional park acreage in Concord rose from 40 to 2,256 in 2020; 'The East Bay Regional Park District took possession of the former Concord Naval Weapons Station from the National Park Service and Navy in 2020.' The City is assisting the District in planning Thurgood Marshall Regional Park. |
Government | 2,256 acres of regional parkland in the city (from 40 before 2020)A |
| Contra Costa County Wikipedia (s10): airport owner Contra Costa County; 495 acres on the city's western edge (Concord/Pacheco). The County's own pages are blocked. |
Government | Buchanan Field Airport, 495 acresB |
| City of Concord ACFR (s2): 18 city parks on 379 acres, 52 acres of roadway landscaping, 22 miles of trails; the City owns and leases out the Toyota Pavilion and land for a water park, batting cages and an amusement park, and runs the Diablo Creek Golf Course as an enterprise fund. Capital assets list land at $26,379,019 for governmental activities and $395,182 for business-type activities (30 Jun 2025), at cost, not market value. |
Government | 18 parks, 379 acres; land at historical cost $26.4M (governmental) + $0.4M (sewer and golf)A |
| Taubman Land Associates LLC ACFR Table 7 (s2), 'Primary Land Use: Commercial'. Taubman's 2019 10-K (s3) says Sunvalley mall 'is subject to a ground lease on the land, which is 50% owned through an affiliate of TRG and 50% by' a Taubman family entity. |
Private company | $249.0M assessed, the largest taxpayer in the city (FY2024-25)A |
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Very few new homes are being permitted in Concord: the Census Bureau counted 70 single-family units in 2025 ($8.1M), 89 in 2024 and 83 plus two apartment buildings of 256 units in 2023. The city's pipeline is the former naval weapons station, where Brookfield Properties is the City's master developer after Lennar's earlier agreement lapsed. Apartments, not new houses, are where the money sits: three apartment owners are among the five largest taxpayers. No league table of Concord builders exists, and the County roll that would count builders' lots is closed to scripts, so builder figures are what a City or Reuse Project document states.
| Name | Type | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| Brookfield Properties The Reuse Project site (s7) carries Brookfield Properties' December 2024 community open house for the CNWS project and the Navy-approved EDC term sheet; no homes are yet built. |
Public company | Master developer, former CNWS (2,422 acres to transfer)A |
| Lennar The Key Documents page (s17) holds the Lennar Full Proposal, Term Sheet and the 'Amended and Restated Lennar Agreement To Negotiate FINAL 7/12/2016'. The City began a new master-developer selection on 15 May 2023 (s8). |
Public company | Former CNWS master developer (Agreement to Negotiate amended 12 Jul 2016)A |
| AD Seeno Construction Company Inc City ACFR Table 7 (s2). The figure is property held, not homes built. |
Private company | $90.6M assessed, the 8th-largest taxpayerA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Concord's commercial wealth is retail along I-680 (Sunvalley, The Veranda, The Willows), office campuses, and big apartment complexes. The ten largest taxpayers held 5.98% of the city's assessed value in FY2024-25. These are taxpayer names as the City's tax consultant (HdL) reports them; most are single-asset LLCs whose parents are not stated. Values are Proposition 13 assessed values, which follow purchase price, so a recent buyer shows a much higher figure than a long-term holder.
| Name | Type | Assessed value FY2024-25 |
|---|---|---|
| Taubman Land Associates LLC Commercial; rank 1 in 2015-16 too ($176.0M). The land under Sunvalley Shopping Center (s3). |
Private company | $249,018,512 (rank 1)A |
| Concord CenterCal Owner LLC Commercial; $69.2M and rank 6 in 2015-16. The Veranda, 2001-2003 Diamond Blvd (Chamber listing, s14). |
Developer | $205,000,000 (rank 2; one parcel)A |
| Willows Center Concord Commercial; $63.2M and rank 8 in 2015-16. Members not stated. |
Private company | $122,007,400 (rank 5; two parcels)A |
| Concord Technology Center Properties Commercial. In 2015-16 'DWF III Concord Technology LLC' was rank 2 at $96.7M. The Successor Agency table also lists 'Jamestown Concord Technology' with two parcels at $56.7M. No filing opened names the parents. |
Private company | $105,002,291 (rank 7; four parcels)A |
| AD Seeno Construction Company Inc Listed as Commercial. A builder-developer; in 2015-16 the related-name 'Seecon Financial and Construction Co' was rank 7 at $64.7M. |
Private company | $90,620,712 (rank 8); five parcels in the former redevelopment area at $61.2MA |
| Gonsalves and Santucci, Inc The only industrial owner in the top ten. |
Private company | $88,812,850 (rank 9)A |
| Clayton Valley Shopping Center Commercial; rank 5 in 2015-16 at $69.2M. |
Private company | $83,015,765 (rank 10)A |
| L and L Hospitality Holdings LLC Successor Agency top-ten table for the project area, FY2024-25. |
Private company | $55,383,894 (one parcel, former redevelopment area)A |
| Renaissance Res Holdings LLC Residential (apartments) on the City's FY2024-25 taxpayer tables; parent not stated in any source opened. |
Private company | $154,309,748 (rank 3; four parcels)A |
| Sequoia Equities Concord PC LLC Residential (apartments) on the City's FY2024-25 taxpayer tables; parent not stated in any source opened. |
Private company | $128,313,174 (rank 4; two parcels)A |
| HM Grant Street LLC Residential (apartments) on the City's FY2024-25 taxpayer tables; parent not stated in any source opened. |
Private company | $118,512,445 (rank 6; two parcels)A |
| HSRE Oakmont Concord LLC Residential (apartments) on the City's FY2024-25 taxpayer tables; parent not stated in any source opened. 'HSRE' and 'Oakmont' are in the entity name; no filing opened confirms its sponsors. |
Private company | $54,521,682 (one parcel, former redevelopment area)A |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- The price in the Navy EDC term sheet for the 2,422 CNWS acres. Search snippets give about $628M paid over roughly 30 years, a $4.6M deposit at a first transfer of about 1,000 acres in 2030, and City Council approval on 27 May 2026. The executed term sheet is linked only from a CivicAlerts page, which robots.txt disallows; contracosta.news forbids automated reading and concordbpproject.com bars ClaudeBot. None of these was opened.
- Who holds the Sunvalley mall leasehold after its 4.44% loan matured on 1 Sep 2025 and the mall left Simon's property table. Wikipedia names Spinoso Real Estate Group (no citation for ownership); a November 2025 SF Chronicle-linked article on the mall's finances was not read.
- The Veranda's history as Chevron's former Concord office campus and CenterCal's CalSTRS joint venture: search snippets only (Bisnow, ICSC, GlobeSt), not opened.
- Parents of the single-asset taxpayers (Renaissance Res Holdings LLC, Sequoia Equities Concord PC LLC, HM Grant Street LLC, Concord Technology Center Properties, Jamestown Concord Technology, L and L Hospitality Holdings LLC, HSRE Oakmont Concord LLC, Willows Center Concord, Clayton Valley Shopping Center): no filing opened names them, and matching them to buildings by address would be inference.
- Parcel counts and acreage for the City, County, Mt. Diablo Unified School District, BART (Concord and North Concord/Martinez stations), PG&E and Contra Costa Water District: the County roll and GIS are closed to scripts (Cloudflare on contracosta.ca.gov, robots on gis.cccounty.us).
- Builders' lot counts and single-family-rental holders: without an open owner roll none could be counted.
- The County Clerk-Recorder's own fee schedule (Recorder-Fee-Schedule-2026-UPDATED-2.pdf on contracostavote.gov) sits behind an AWS WAF CAPTCHA; the $5/$2 copy fee is from Deeds.com's summary.
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Sources
- Contra Costa County Recorder Information (fees, transfer tax; 'Checked October 2026 against official publications') — Deeds.com · openB
- City of Concord Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (Statistical Section Tables 5, 7, 18; Successor Agency continuing disclosure Table 5) — City of Concord · openA
- Taubman Centers, Inc. Form 10-K for 2019 (Item 2 properties; Note 5 joint ventures; related-party note on Sunvalley and its ground lease) — Taubman Centers, Inc. via SEC EDGAR · openA
- Simon Property Group Form 10-K for 2024 (Item 2 Taubman properties table; mortgage schedule) — Simon Property Group via SEC EDGAR · openA
- Simon Property Group Form 10-K for 2025 (Taubman properties table, no Sunvalley entry) — Simon Property Group via SEC EDGAR · openA
- Sunvalley Shopping Center — Wikipedia · openB
- Concord Community Reuse Project home page (news: Navy approves EDC term sheet; financial agreement for 2,422 acres; Brookfield Properties open house) — City of Concord, Local Reuse Authority · openA
- About the Concord Community Reuse Project (page updated 6 Jul 2023) — City of Concord, Local Reuse Authority · openA
- Concord Naval Weapons Station — Wikipedia · openB
- Buchanan Field Airport — Wikipedia · openB
- Toyota Pavilion at Concord (Concord Pavilion) — Wikipedia · openB
- Concord Pavilion Community Outreach Committee (four City appointees and one appointed by the Pavilion's manager, Live Nation) — City of Concord · openA
- John Muir Health — Wikipedia · openB
- Member listing: Concord CenterCal, LLC - The Veranda, 2001-2003 Diamond Blvd, Concord CA 94520 — Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce · openA
- The Willows Shopping Center — Wikipedia · openB
- Building Permits Survey, West Region places, annual 2025 (also 2024 and 2023 files): Concord city, CA (FIPS place 16000) — US Census Bureau · openA
- Concord Community Reuse Project, Key Documents (Lennar Agreement to Negotiate 2016, Lennar Term Sheet, Navy Record of Decision 2017) — City of Concord, Local Reuse Authority · openA