Foothill Partners

About Foothill Partners

Foothill Partners is a real estate operator headquartered in Suite 200 El Dorado Hills, California.

Foothill Partners, Inc. is a privately held street‑retail and mixed‑use property developer founded in 1994 by Douglas Wiele. Based in El Dorado Hills, California, the firm operates across Northern California and Northern Nevada. The company specializes in infill, neighborhood‑scale retail and retail‑based mixed‑use developments that integrate commerce, culture, and community. It acquires, develops, and operates projects in partnership with private and institutional real estate equity funds. In terms of scale, Foothill transformed a 100‑acre horse pasture into an 800,000‑square‑foot downtown district at El Dorado Hills Town Center between 1997 and 2012. The firm also repurposed 95,000 sq ft into the Gilman District neighborhood shopping area in Berkeley, completed in 2014. Recent work includes redevelopment of a former Lowe’s into the 150,000–175,000‑square‑foot Oddie District mixed‑use project in Reno, Nevada, underway as of mid‑2025.

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