Amador Savings held an official ground breaking ceremony on November 15th for their new branch office in Hacienda Business Park.

The branch will be located in Hacienda Plaza, an 80,000 square foot, four building retail/garden office complex located on 6.3 acres, at the corner of Stoneridge and Gibraltar Drives, in the center of the business park.

The four buildings of the complex will occupy only 29% of the site, with lush landscaping covering approximately 41% of the acreage. Three of the four buildings, approximately 31,200 square feet, will be leased as retail space. The remaining two-story office building will provide approximately 46,531 square feet of new office space.

Located across from Hacienda Center, the Park’s three-towered, five-story flagship building, Hacienda Plaza will sit in the heart of the Park, in an effort to provide “a convenient retail and commercial center for the employees within the Park,” according to project leasing manager, Mark Biagini.

"Hacienda Plaza is designed to attract retail tenants who can provide services required by businesses and employees in the Park, and help prevent traffic congestion,” he explains. “Employees will be able to take care of many lunch hour errands such as banking, without leaving the Park and tying up the city’s thoroughfares.”

On hand for the first tenant’s groundbreaking ceremony were city council members Karin Mohr and Walt Wood; George Kallis represented Hacienda Business Park; and Ted Mann and Jo Betty Allen spoke for Amador Valley Savings.

In addition to their headquarters on Main Street and the Hacienda Plaza location, Amador Valley Savings plans to expand their services with two more branches within Pleasanton: one on Hopyard Road and one on Santa Rita Road.

Amador Valley Savings is the only locally owned and managed savings and loan in Pleasanton. Since its founding in 1982, the association’s assets have risen from $2 million to $63 million.

To see a reproduction of the original article and edition of Pleasanton Pathways, visit: December 3, 1984 Pathways.