Barney Aldridge
Managing Partner, Aldridge Development, Inc.
Sebastopol, CA 95472
Developer at The Barlow Company.
Phone (707) 484-8020
Developer at The Barlow Company.
Property Types
Industrial, Land, Retail, Multifamily
Markets
North Bay/Santa Rosa
Languages
English
Bio
In 2005, Barney Aldridge acquired The Barlow property from his mentor, Ken Martin. At the time, the property consisted of 7 buildings which housed industrial tenants such as Bronze Plus Art Foundry, Guayaki Yerba Mate, Wolfard Glassblowing, The Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and Innovative Molding, a bottle cap manufacturing company.
With intentions to redevelop the project, Barney worked with local architects and designers to conceptualize a redevelopment of the former apple cannery, now dilapidated factory space at the gateway to West County.
After several revisions to the plan and feedback from the City locals to keep the nature true to Sebastopol, finally a plan would come to fruition to incorporate the site’s history of manufacturing, and the towns love of small town, local charm.
While finalizing construction plans and seeking Lending, Barney took his vision to the people and began hand curating a roster of local producers, with the intention of creating a “makers marketplace” where the public could witness the production of some of their favorite products, with a behind the scenes look at how those products were made, and most importantly, who was making them.
