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Exclusive Discoun Bishop Ranch Ten Basque Boulangerie Café
Creme Si Bon
Danville, CA
San Ramon, CA
411 Hartz Avenue, Ste. A-1 Tel: 925.208.1631
192 Market Place Tel: 925.804.6261
Basque Boulangerie Café is a bakery café
Specialties include artisan French pastries
based in Sonoma with a second location in
like macaroons, fruit gelee, and single
the historic Danville Hotel. The café features
serving cakes and pastries. Also offered are
breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as award-
cookies, cupcakes, scones, tea, coffee and
winning breads, pastries, desserts and other
sandwiches. Special orders available for
baked goods. The café also features craft
meetings, parties and events.
beers and Sonoma and Napa county wines. Bishop Ranch Offer: 15% discount for
Bishop Ranch Offer: 10% off retail price for all orders over $100.
in-house dining or catering (excludes alcohol). ShredWorks Bishop Ranch Chiropractic
455 High Street
San Ramon, CA
Tel: 510.729.7110
2301 Camino Ramon, Suite 210 Tel: 925.867.3311 Bishop Ranch Chiropractic located at BR11. Drs. Chimenti and Singh are passionate in their desire to create a chiropractic care program that specifically fits each patient. They are committed to working with each
Oakland, CA
ShredWorks is a AAA certified on- and off-site document shredding company. Bishop Ranch Offer: 20% off one-time shred projects; $29.99 for one cabinet; first month of regular service free.
patient on an individual basis to ensure the best quality care possible. Bishop Ranch Offer: 25% off initial visit, 10% off regular visits, or 5% off massage service or office products.
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Basque Boulangerie Café
Ramon Natural Medical Center Martinizing Dry Cleaners
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Executive Pro Dr. Soheil Saadat Founder & CEO of GenieMD
CREATING SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES HAS BECOME SOMETHING OF A TRADITION FOR DR. SOHEIL SAADAT, FOUNDER AND CEO
OF BISHOP RANCH-BASED GENIEMD. Two of his previous companies
were created right here at Bishop Ranch, and he is underway in building a successful third. His current company has developed a cloud-based mobile telemedicine platform that allows patients to interact seamlessly with their physicians in several ways using their smartphones, from video visits to electronic prescriptions to chronic care management. The product is currently in use in many clinics and hospitals around the world. Dr. Saadat speaks with a clear calm voice, and he is candid about the large number of serious and well-funded players in the field of telemedicine. “We have plenty of competitors in this marketplace,” he explains, “and some of them are doing rather well. Healthcare in general is a very complex market to be in and of the many fields I have worked in, including the financial and the pharmaceutical, healthcare is perhaps the most complex. It can be frustrating but also rewarding.” But clearly those frustrations are outweighed by the positives Dr. Saadat finds in the field and in the progress he and his employees have made in his five-year-old company.
“Perhaps the most appealing part of this work is the social benefit,” he says. “You see how people can use the product and the various services to help create better access and experience to healthcare at a lower cost.” Dr. Saadat received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 1990 he founded Scientific Software, Inc., a world leader in the chromatography and scientific data management markets, with its products deployed in major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. SSI was acquired by Agilent Technologies in 2005. In 2005 he founded Prodiance Corporation, a global leader in enterprise risk management solutions. Prodiance was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in 2011. He founded GenieMD in 2012. When not busy founding yet another company at Bishop Ranch, Dr. Saadat enjoys mentoring young entrepreneurs, walking the Blackhawk hills, playing golf, driving fast cars and spending time with his family.
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Save Time. Save Save the Planet
Booster Fuels At Bishop Ranch It’s one of those “Why didn’t I think of that” ideas, so obvious and full of good sense that we now wonder how we ever lived without it. But now Booster Fuels, the gas-delivered-toyour-car-at-work fuel amenity at Bishop Ranch, is here and the numbers of users prove just what a great idea it is. Since the purple Booster truck started providing gas to vehicles at Bishop Ranch in October of last year, almost 1,900 people have used the service — with over 15,000 fill-ups requested! And the demand is rising. Yet there’s more to it than the convenience. The price is often less than that at most nearby gas stations. If you factor in the cost of the gas and wear and tear on the car in traveling to the station, the cost of all those trips hits just over $50,000! And there are other kinds of savings.
Through July of this year, Bishop Ranch employees saved 3,895 hours of time they would have spent traveling to get gas. And they would have rolled up 22,747 miles on their odometers getting to those gas stations. And we can’t forget the environmental benefit. Letting Booster come to your car instead of taking the car to the gas station over the last nine months has meant a net reduction of over 22,000 pounds of reduced carbon emissions. So, if you want to save money, save the headache of driving to the gas station, and do a little something to save the planet — sign up for Booster Fuels and do all three. For more information, go to boosterfuels.com
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National Parklet h Bartlett Parklet
For the last three years, Bishop Ranch employees have enjoyed the Bartlett Parklet, a cozy portable hangout named after the original pear orchards that once grew on the parcel of land that is now Bishop Ranch. This fun, compact structure provides a great community gathering space open for all to enjoy — the perfect spot to eat lunch, read a book, or convene a quick meeting with coworkers. And since the parklet rotates around the Bishop Ranch complexes, you never know when it might appear in your parking lot. We’re reminding you about the parklet because September 15 is National Parklet Day. A parklet is a parking space or other small space temporarily converted to a park to provide enhanced amenities such as green space or seating. Parklets were first seen in San Francisco in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in downtown San Francisco. These clever conversions have since caught on around the country and Bishop Ranch is proud to provide one.
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JDRF Walk Bishop Ranch is teaming up with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in its annual Walk for the Cure. It’s a fun event that gives people with Type 1 Diabetes—along with their family, friends and co-workers—the opportunity to raise money for life-changing T1D research. You can join up with any one of the three JDRF teams—family, corporate or school/youth organizations. And you don’t have to be a family member or a co-worker to join. The point is to show your support by doing the walk with others who share your interest in curing T1D. The Bay Area One Walk, hosted by Bishop Ranch, will take place at BR2600 on Sunday, October 15. Check-in is at 9:30am, and the three-mile walk gets underway at 11am. To register, go to: walk.jdrf.org/EastBay.
Hop on the Bike, Cruise to the Hopfest Just remember that the order is important: The bike ride, then the beer! The annual V3 Hopfest — the Veterans’ Victory Velo (V3) bike ride and craft beer festival — is on Saturday, September 16. Hosted by the Dougherty Valley/San Ramon (DVSR) Rotary, this fun-filled two-part event includes scenic bike rides at four different distances: 15, 30, 60, or 100 miles. The Hopfest at trail’s end will feature craft beers from 20 to 25 California breweries. Register for one or both activities at the event website: v3hopfest.com/index.html. Sentinels of Freedom, a 501(c)(3) national organization with headquarters in Bishop Ranch 11, is a primary beneficiary of the bike ride.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 9:30 AM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 7AM
2600 CAMINO RAMON (BR2600)
2600 CAMINO RAMON (BR2600)
Volunteer Opport
Habitat For Humanity: Get to Work for Good Works
Volunteer to Help End Hunger
Here’s your chance to change the world...one nail
who may not have enough to eat. Be one of the
at a time. Join other Bishop Ranch volunteers as we help construct part of a 10-home project in Martinez. Tasks may include framing walls, painting, cleanup and other rewarding work. Absolutely no experience is necessary. We’ll even provide a free lunch to help keep your energy up. Every year, Habitat for Humanity serves thousands of deserving families by helping build homes they can call their own. We need 25 people to sign up by Monday, October 2. Please call us at 925.543.0100 today to join the Bishop Ranch team. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 8:30AM–4:00PM
401 HERON LANE MARTINEZ, CA
Lend a hand to hungry kids, seniors and families volunteers helping the Food Bank sort, process and pack food. And it’s fun! Volunteer, get a tour of their big warehouse, and enjoy a noontime lunch. The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano works to reduce food waste, feed hungry people, and raise public awareness of issues related to food and hunger. The work could not get done without the help of the hundreds of volunteers that donate their time. Please call Community & Outreach at 925.543.0100 to join the Bishop Ranch Volunteer Team. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 12:30PM - 3:00PM
4010 NELSON AVENUE CONCORD, CA
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The Weekly Blast: Know What’s Up, Save Some Cash, Follow the Trucks If you’re not already getting the Bishop Ranch Weekly News emailed to you every Tuesday, you’re missing out on a whole lot of fun, savings and events on the horizon. The weekly email “blast” is the best way to know everything that’s going on in and around Bishop Ranch. Signing up to receive it in your inbox makes perfect sense because getting the blast means you’re likely to be among the first to learn about the many events at Bishop Ranch and the surrounding community. Such as noontime seminars, concerts, bike rides and festivals.
A lot of our messages focus on transportation, like the BRiteBikes being free, the Scoop carpooling community and the autonomous buses that are in the works. You’ll read it here first. And we all enjoy eating, so there’s always plenty of stuff about food: a seminar on shopping for the paleo diet, a meeting on healthy cooking for the busy family; a cooking class with a local chef. We also let you know about ALL the food trucks and where they’ll be every week. Don’t wait. Email us at amenities@bishopranch.com and we’ll add you to the list and blast some good news your way every Tuesday.
The Here and Now of Artificial Intellig
Join Us for Our Monthly Tech Talk After years if not decades of talk about the dramatic impact of artificial intelligence on our lives — AI is here. In the office. In our homes. In our cars. In our hands. Learn how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing industry after industry, sometimes at breakneck speed. The experts at Iron Horse Interactive of San Ramon will share updates with you on how AI is affecting us today, explaining what we can all expect to see on the horizon as the technology advances and matures. Learn how you can be best prepared to leverage AI for all you do in the workplace and in the home. These seminars tend to book up very quickly and space is limited. Please call Community & Outreach at 925.543.0100 to RSVP. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19 NOON–1PM
2600 CAMINO RAMON (BR2600) LIGHT LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED
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What Kids Wish r Parents Knew
Teen Esteem is a Danville based non-profit focused on educating and empowering students and families in the community. They have been talking to students in the Tri Valley area for over 20 years, reaching over 170,000 kids. During this time they have learned a lot of really insightful information that they like to share with parents. What Kids Wish Their Parents Knew is a fun, interactive, and extremely impactful talk. You will learn about the thoughtful answers that kids provide in response to this question, and how you can use this information to help you parent more effectively and be closer to your child. Teen Esteem Volunteer Speaker Sean Donohue is one of the Bay Area’s most popular parent education speakers, and this is a topic he is especially passionate about. Sean is a Family Coach and has been working with teens and adolescents for over 15 years. This seminar is recommended for parents with children K-12. Space is limited, please RSVP to Community & Outreach by calling 925.543.0100 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 NOON - 1PM
2600 CAMINO RAMON (BR2600)
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