MADRONE VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER OPENING

Toeniskoetter & Breeding Inc. Development (TBI Development) will open the first phase of the 80,000-square-foot Madrone Village Shopping Center, President Brad Krouskup announced. The four initial businesses there will be South Valley National Bank, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, FedEx Kinko’s and Chipotle Mexican Grill. Together the four will occupy more than half the space in the four-building, 28,000-square-foot first phase.

LEAH C.TOENISKOETTER NAMED CHAIR OF VMC FOUNDATION

Leah C. Toeniskoetter

SAN JOSE –- Leah C. Toeniskoetter, Bear Valley Project Development Manager for Toeniskoetter & Breeding, Inc. Development (TBI Development), has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the VMC Foundation. During her two-year term, she will have overall responsibility for the Foundation raising funds and increasing public awareness of the Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System, which includes the Valley Medical Center (VMC) in San Jose. She joined the Board of Directors two years ago.

“The VMC Foundation helps bridge the widening gap between public revenues and the growing cost of providing quality health care for our entire community, regardless of ability to pay,” Toeniskoetter said. “Our goals for the year include funding essential medical technologies and services through the donations of a generous community.”

Among the VMC Foundation’s 2008 goals are:
● acquiring state-of-the-art technology to improve safety and efficiency in dispensing drugs and in maintaining electronic health and medical records.
● purchasing essential equipment and enhancing programs for Valley Medical Center’s highly regarded neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
● concluding a two-year plan to provide a new linear accelerator and digital mammography system in the Sobrato Cancer Center.
● funding new prevention programs for childhood obesity.

In other community service activities, Toeniskoetter, 30, is Past-President of the Rotaract Club of Silicon Valley, a community service-oriented group of young professionals, which led a campaign at the end of 2007 to raise more than $50,000 for the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU) at VMC. She also raised $10,000 last year for Turning Wheels for Kids, which provides new bicycles for underprivileged children in Santa Clara County, by participating in the “Death Ride − Tour of the California Alps,” an intense bicycling event over several mountain passes in the Sierra Nevada. Toeniskoetter volunteers at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto and through the Notre Dame Alumni Club of Silicon Valley at the Julian Street Inn in San Jose, which provides emergency shelter for the mentally ill.

At TBI Development, Toeniskoetter is coordinating and managing the process for obtaining permits and environmental approvals for major improvements at Bear Valley Village in Alpine County. She also is engaged in becoming a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-Accredited Professional through the Green Building Certification Institute.

Toeniskoetter graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Science-Business, and she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia from 1999 to 2001. She also has lived in Italy and Brazil, and she speaks Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. Previous volunteer work includes support for the Stroke Awareness Foundation in San Jose and working in elementary and middle schools for The Role Model Program, which Silicon Valley business and community leaders founded in 1989 to provide positive adult role models for at-risk youth. Before joining Toeniskoetter & Breeding Development, Toeniskoetter served as a senior financial analyst at Comerica Bank.

The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center is a 524-bed, acute-care teaching hospital and research institution. Over the past four-year period, it has provided  health services for one in four residents of Santa Clara County and is the only medical center in the county that guarantees access to high quality health care regardless of ability to pay. Since 1988, the VMC Foundation has served as the fundraising arm of the medical center and county health and hospital system. TBI Development has been a major contributor to the Foundation, and Leah Toeniskoetter’s father, Charles J. Toeniskoetter, has also served as its chair.

Founded in 1983, Toeniskoetter & Breeding, Inc. Development has developed more than 3 million square feet of buildings, manages a portfolio of more than 2 million square feet and serves as managing general partner for a number of diversified real estate properties throughout Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. These properties include the 110-acre Madrone Business Park and adjacent 30-acre Cochrane Business Ranch in Morgan Hill, as well as medical, office and retail properties in San Jose, Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley.