Leadership

Barry J. Shotts

Founder/Owner

The Shotts Company, LLC was founded by Barry J. Shotts in 2007 to create and develop high quality real estate projects across a full range of land uses.  The Company specializes in land development and Brownfields redevelopment, as well as industrial, urban infill and affordable housing projects.  Mr. Shotts manages all aspects of the Company's  projects, including project identification, entitlements, securing equity and debt and project design.    

Expertise

Mr. Shotts began his career in 1989 at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, where he become a Land Use/Environmental Department Partner in the San Diego and San Francisco offices.   Mr. Shotts later joined the law firm of Holme, Roberts & Owen to start and head the firm's California environmental and land use development practice in San Francisco.  As a Founding and Managing Partner of Trimble/Shotts, LLC, Mr. Shotts also specializes in the development and construction of affordable housing, including supportive housing for veterans.  Mr. Shotts also served as the Vice-President of Business Development at Beyond.com, a former e-commerce services company based in Santa Clara, CA. 

As an attorney and real estate professional, Mr. Shotts has handled virtually every type of project, including Brownfields redevelopments, redevelopment projects under the Base Realignment and Closure Act, transit oriented developments, affordable housing, intermodal, logistics and goods movement facilities, and a broad spectrum of other residential, industrial, commercial and mixed-use developments.  In the context of these projects, Mr. Shotts has managed issues pertaining to the California Environmental Quality Act, the Endangered Species Act,  various land secured municipal finance districts, including Community Facilities Districts (Mello-Roos) and assessment districts, and a host of zoning, planning and other entitlements related matters.

Education

J.D., Columbia University, 1989, Columbia Law Review

B.S., Kansas State University, 1986, Nuclear Engineering (Honors)

Professional and Community Affiliations

Board of Directors, Our Town St. Helena

Founder, Friends of Symphony Napa Valley

Former President, Symphonix League of the San Francisco Symphony

Member, Saint Helena Chamber of Commerce

Member, California Bar

Mr. Shotts lives in St. Helena, CA with his wife, Brigit, and their Coton du Tulear, Little Christmas, and is very active in the Napa Valley community and beyond.