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Abe Alizadeh, dressed in a conservative blue business suit, is neat as a pin, except for a sprig of hair poking from the crown of his head.
The unruly cowlick is deceptive, because Alizadeh keeps things in order. Preparing to talk about his projects, he reaches among the dozens of posterboards leaning against the wall of his conference room, selecting some and arranging them. Each board has a rendering of one of his projects, and there seem to be dozens of boards. He almost surely has more local projects under way than any other builder outside of housing.
Just to be sure he has all the information, he opens a binder, full of brochures on each venture. He picks out one brochure, the one for Fairway Commons I - a gem, he says as he points to the rendering, carefully set in one of Roseville's strongest retail areas.
Precise, polite, smart and unusually ambitious, Alizadeh is enjoying one of the most spectacular real estate careers ever seen in Sacramento commercial building development.
At 45, he's not even with leading local builders Buzz Oates, Carl
Panattoni or Joe Benvenuti. But he's getting there, just 11 years after entering the...