All in Mare Island

The Mare Island Company is investing in a future that builds on Mare Island’s storied past, creating new opportunity for all who live, work, visit, and play here.

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Why The Mare Island Company?

The Mare Island Company attaches a single name to a focused team. Assigned by the owners of the island’s developable land (Nimitz Group), and its managers and developers (Southern Land), our team is entirely focused on the enduring vision and values that will shape Mare Island for years to come.

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Built on Enduring Values

Our core values emerge from the character of Mare Island to unite us and serve as guideposts for all we do.

  • We act now with long-term thinking in mind, invested in creating both immediate impact and lasting value. Thoughtful and deliberate in our actions, we consider those who came before us and those yet to come.

  • We embrace bigheartedness. Everyone is invited for this ride. Welcoming, kind, and motivated by creating and sharing opportunity, we prioritize transparency, communicating, and listening to positively impact all of Mare Island and Vallejo.

  • We work hard in traditional ways and in new ones. Our pace is determined, productive, and creative, combining Mare Island’s industrial spirit with the entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon and Napa valleys, and all those who work and strive to create quality.

  • We steward the island’s valuable resources, working with people and planet to build a resilient system that creates more than it consumes. Our vision of sustainability spans social, economic, environmental spheres.

  • We admire and nurture bootstrapping. Our plans aren’t over-planned, our helping hand isn’t heavy-handed. As collaborative self-starters, we invite inspired risks, champion new ideas, and welcome creative pivots. Much of what’s found here began here.

  • We foster freedom from what hampers the freedom to, a sense that you can be free from the worries of the outside world and free to enjoy the possibilities of this one. We go beyond basic safety to consider collective well-being.

 

PEOPLE MAKE PLACE

The Mare Island Company galvanizes all who make this place their world. Visionary CEOs looking for inspired workspace. Local residents or workers building community. Visitors seeking less-traveled trails. All play a role in what Mare Island can and will be.

The Catalysts of Mare Island

More than a group of experienced placemakers, The Mare Island Company is a team of dedicated people who believe that by acting as stewards, curators, advocates, and collaborators we can be catalysts for this great island.

WHAT DRIVES OUR WAY

Inspired by the potential here, The Mare Island Company is committed to capturing the elements that make Mare Island so special.

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    SHARED HISTORY

    History is made and revealed here. You may have lived nearby all your life and only now found the chance to discover history hidden in plain sight, or shape the next story being written today.

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    INNOVATION INCUBATION

    Those who make new ideas make their way here. From knowledge creation and tech innovation to artisan craft, The Mare Island Company continues to attract “Made on Mare Island” spirit.

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    WELCOMING SECRET

    In the middle of the Bay Area, Mare Island is a world of its own. The Mare Island Company welcomes all to experience a day or a lifetime at this well-kept secret.

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    HOMETOWN LIVABILITY

    Even those who visit feel at home. Generations have lived here, and the ones to come will take pride in what they build in this vibrant, industrious, walkable, welcoming community.

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    UNIFIED DIVERSITY

    The Mare Island Company reflects Vallejo’s strength in diversity, working to ensure everyone is included and connected. Distinct yet united, we create a vibrant, functional socioeconomic quilt.

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    ISLAND ENVIRONS

    A natural setting surrounds and infuses all. The Mare Island Company advocates for preservation and integration of precious space and resources that add value to and help sustain all.