About Us

Shapery Enterprises is an operating company for the various corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies operated thereunder. Shapery Enterprises is, or has been, involved in the ownership, design, and development of high-rise office buildings, high-rise hotels, commercial centers, historic building restorations and rehabilitations and raw land. Shapery Enterprises is also designing, developing, and implementing technological advances in transportation including electrified rail, vertical take-off aircraft and high-speed magnetic levitation trains.

Sandor W. Shapery is an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of California and has practiced before the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Shapery is also licensed by the State of California as a real estate broker. Mr. Shapery is currently managing his real estate holdings and developing advanced technology for transportation. Mr. Shapery has been a resident of the city of San Diego for more than 50 years. He graduated from San Diego State University with honors majoring in Political Science. Mr. Shapery attended law school at the University of San Diego where he graduated with honors with a Juris Doctorate Cum Laude. While in law school, Mr. Shapery was a law clerk to Melvin Belli.

Mr. Shapery is one of the founders of the First National Bank, the largest initally capitalized bank at that time in the history of the United States. Other business interests include the sole shareholder of Shapery and Associates, a professional Law Corporation, Columbia Funding L.L.C., and various other ownership entities.

Mr. Shapery was on the president's counsel of the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, a former vice-president of the San Diego chapter of the American Cancer Society, a member of the Coalition for Responsible Planning, Friends of Arthritis, United Way, Diabetes Association, American Mensa Limited, a member of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce Infrastructure Committee, Vice Chairman of the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) Stakeholders Working Group, an advisory member to the SANDAG Transportation Committee made up of the 18 mayors of all of the cities in San Diego County, a member of the Advisory Committee to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority and a member of the Southern California Leadership Counsel founded by California’s four previous Governors. Mr. Shapery is listed in Who's Who in California and in the National Directory of Who's Who in Executives and Professionals.

Mr. Shapery, through Shapery Gyronautics Corporation, has patented and is developing a low-cost high-speed gyrostabilized computer operated vertical take-off and landing passenger vehicle that is intended to revolutionize air transportation. Shapery Gyronautics is currently working with NASA through its Revolutionary Aerospace System Concepts division which is funding development and testing of the VTOL engine system, utilizing circulation control to create a more efficient "morphing fan necelle". As a result of the collaboration with NASA joint patents are currently being developed.

Mr. Shapery was the managing General partner of the Emerald-Shapery Center completed in 1991, located on a full city block in downtown San Diego. The Emerald-Shapery Center (now known as the Emerald Plaza) consists of a 30 story office building and a 27 story hotel joined together by a 100 foot-high atrium. The project containing over 1 millon square feet had a cost of 132 million dollars and was financed by the Tokyu Corporation of Japan. The project was conceived, designed and developed by Mr. Shapery who handled every aspect of development from land acquisition, preliminary and detailed design, negotiations with the City of San Diego Redevelopment Agency and creation of the joint venture with the Tokyu Corporation of Japan.

Emerald-Shapery is recognized as one of the finest mixed use developments in the country by the fact that is has been featured on the cover of 41 magazines, the Sunday edition of the New York Times and USA Today, in addition to winning numerous design awards.

Mr. Shapery has sold his controlling interest in the project to pursue other business interests, but has retained his two-story residential penthouse on the top two floors of the Hotel Tower.

Mr. Shapery's holdings include the 21-story Sempra Energy Corporate Headquarters Building located on a full square block in downtown San Diego consisting of 337,500 square feet along with two levels of underground parking. That entire project is leased to Sempra on a full triple net bond lease.

In 1994, Mr. Shapery had developed and leased to Family Golf, a public Corporation, the Haborside Golf Center, a golf driving range with sports bar and pro-shop in downtown San Diego on four blocks between Broadway, Ash, Pacific Highway, and the train station, on land leased from Santa Fe Railroad.

In 1999, Mr. Shapery had consummated a long-term, unsubordinated ground lease as landlord to a group of construction worker union pension funds to develop and operate in partnership with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. as tenant an 18-story 263 room W Hotel on the site of the Old Columbia Square property. Construction commenced in April of 2001 and was completed in December of 2002 on this 62 million dollar hotel transaction.

In 2000-2001, Mr. Shapery developed a 106-suite Extended Stay America Hotel in Carlsbad, California. In December of 2000, Mr. Shapery acquired the 70-suite Historic Riviera Hotel and the entire block of downtown San Diego it sits on located between 11th and 12th Avenues, and "A" Street and Russ Blvd. The project has gone through an 11 million dollar renovation, opened January 5, 2004 and was operated as a Staybridge Suites by Intercontinental Hotels Group. The historic portion of the property was recently acquired by Cendent Corporation, while Mr. Shapery retained one half of the block and is currently designing a 40 story Condominium Hotel project to be know as Shapery Park tower.

Mr. Shapery through his newly formed Innovative Transportation Systems Corporation is currently pursuing the development of technological advances in transportation infrastructure including induction powered railroad and co-existent magnetic levitation trains capable of traveling at speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour on existing railroad infrastructure, and induction charged electric buses.

Mr. Shapery has also established The Southern California Transportation Solutions a 501c3 nonprofit corporation to advance transportation infrastructure technologies.

COMPANY CULTURE

GOALS and MEANS

COMPANY PURPOSE

To create the greatest benefit for the most people while realizing our full potential-through the pursuit of excellence in harmony with nature

Be here now- Commit your attention to the moment.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

To give is to receive-The more benefit you create, the more benefit you receive.

Knowledge is power.

Do everything properly.

Always be willing to change your mind.

Pursue the source, therein lies the truth.

Create more with less.

Create a good working environment for ourselves and expand it to others.

Develop a defined policy, then follow the rules that are mandated by us.

Make agreements only after you have studied your options.

Keep agreements; or if they are impossible to keep, communicate at the earliest time possible.

Surround yourself with the best people.

Make people feel important (as they are). Remember that the person that you are dealing with is the most important person in the world (to them).

Continually acknowledge the greatness in people, then they will become greater.

When communicating with others, do it with compassion and understanding, assuming that what they are saying is true (for them).

Be careful not to make people wrong.

Having a nice tone in your voice communicates positive energy.

Be as polite as you would like others to be.

The response that we receive is in direct relationship to the quality of our communication.

Mistakes are opportunities to learn: when made, acknowledge and study them.

First, allow the person who made the mistake the opportunity to correct it.

Perfection is the act of bringing your task to a completed state- our goal is to create perfection.

Success is the journey and the destination.

Teach by example.

Focus with greater detail at everything you look at.

Constantly work to improve the system.

Speak with good purpose, for it is...as you say.

Work to eliminate liabilities.

Wealth comes from accumulation.

Speech is the energy that joins us in understanding, leading to greater balance.

We must all raise our behavior to a higher standard.

AFFILIATED COMPANIES

1. Gas & Electric Headquarters Building , San Diego, LP

2. Shapery Developers Gas & Electric Property, LP

3. Shapery Developers Gas & Electric Corporation

4. Shapery & Associates, a professional corporation

5. Shapery Gyronautics Corporation

6. 12th & "A" Hotel partners, LP

7. Columbia Funding, LLC

8. Shapery Holdings, LP

9. Southern California Transportation Solutions a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation

10. Innovative Transportation Systems Corporation

Emerald Shapery Center

The Emerald Shapery Center is recognized as one of the finest projects of its type in the country as is evidenced by the fact that it has been featured on the cover of 41 publications in addition to being recognized in the Sunday edition of the New York Times and USA Today.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Emerald Shapery Center is located on Broadway, covering the block between State St. on the east and Columbia Street on the west, The Trolley runs along 'C' Street to the north. This prime location is central to the financial district, Horton Plaza, Seaport Village, Marina residential district, The Santa Fe Depot and the 'B' Street Pier. There is a panoramic view of San Diego bay and the Pacific Ocean beyond to the west and south.

A 'mixed use' concept, has been implemented to include a 27 story hotel tower to the south and a 30 story office tower to the north. The two towers are connected at the base by an atrium exceeding 100 feet in height. This space also contains commercial space, as well as restaurants, two ballrooms and a conference center.

Architecturally, Emerald Shapery Center employs two clusters of hexagonal forms which provide interesting facade modulation and a unique roof configuration. The distinctive entries on State and Columbia are covered with a porte cochere and open onto the light-filled, landscaped atrium.

DESIGN CONCEPT

Recognizing that the universe is a fully integrated energy system, Emerald Shapery Center represents a design concept which strives to respect important resources and repond to human parameters as well. The wise use of resources means savings in the project that can be passed on to the tenants both in form of lower operating costs and finer amenities without the associated higher costs.

The forms used in designing the Center have their basis in nature. The study of crystals has recently attracted much interest from scientists and mathematicians. Most crystals found consist of a series or cluster of hexagons. The hexagon itself is constructed from the triangle, one of natures elemental building blocks. Buckminster Fuller determined that the shape of the hexagon is unsurpassed for it's structural integrity on a linear plane.

As it is employed in this building, the hexagon allows shorter hallways and provides much more visually stimulating spaces than the conventional long corridor found in rectangular structures. Both office space and hotel room benefit from a hexagonal orientation which can encourage interesting interior volumes and maximize daylighting.

When compared with a traditional office space of equal square footage each floor of the Center's office tower (a cluster of five hexagons) contains 858 more square feet of exterior office space, allows 2,098 square feet more daylighted area and uses a significantly smaller core area. In addition to having considerable practical implications, the hexagonal shapes provide distinctive exterior forms which identify Emerald Shapery Center as a 21st Century structure.

BUILDING PROGRAM

Tower 1; Office

The thirty floor office tower contains approximately 375,000 gross square feet, including the 17,000 square foot first floor commercial lease space. The second floor is designated for the 24.000 square feet of ballroom space with the third floor used for the conference center. Floors four through fifteen each contain 18,810 square feet.

Beginning on the sixteenth floor, the five hexagonal modules gradually reduce in number with the highest floors consisting of two-level executive suites offering center atriums and outside decks.

Emerald Shapery Penthouse

As a part of the consideration for the formation of the Emerald Shapery Center joint venture between Mr. Shapery and the Tokyu Corporation of Japan, Mr. Shapery reserved back a 99-year leasehold interest for a nominal consideration of the top two floors (26 & 27) above the hotel portion of the development project for Mr. Shapery's private residence. The penthouse, which is the top stop on the glass enclosed elevators, contains approximately 4,500 square feet of interior living space, plus 1,000 square feet of outdoor terraces on the 26th and 27th floors. The project heliport is located directly above Mr. Shapery's master suite. The Emerald Shapery Penthouse has been used as a film location in over 20 movies, and television shows.