About the firm

A builder for San Francisco's hardest buildings.

Rowdy Red Construction is a developer-focused general contractor founded in 2024, specializing in the renovation and repositioning of the city's historic commercial stock.

Our approach

We operate with a developer's mindset.

We pursue, intentionally, the work most contractors avoid: complex urban projects that demand coordination across uses, the integration of modern systems into historic fabric, and disciplined control of logistics in dense environments.

Because we evaluate every decision on its impact to the overall investment — not just constructability — we navigate tradeoffs with clarity, reduce unnecessary cost exposure, and keep the project aligned with the owner's long-term objectives. Delivering high-end environments demands a different standard of coordination, detailing, and accountability, and we are accustomed to executing to a refined, design-driven standard for exacting stakeholders.

2024
Founded · San Francisco
$300M+
Construction value led
$10M
General liability cover
100%
Bay Area focus
Leadership

Small team. Senior team. The same team.

A tight core of senior leaders runs every project day-to-day — the same people who have delivered our historic San Francisco portfolio together, project after project.

Marisa Gilmore
Project Executive · Managing Director

Marisa Gilmore

More than twenty years across construction and real estate development — capital improvement programs, repositioning, and ownership-side project management throughout the Bay Area. Marisa provides executive oversight: financial control, owner interface, procurement authority, and strategic planning.

20+ yrs
Industry experience
Owner-side
Development background
Bay Area
Full-market focus
Beau Davis
Project Manager · Millwork Lead

Beau Davis

Graduated from Central Washington University with a B.S. in Construction Management. Beau joined Rowdy Red as a project engineer in 2020 and advanced to Project Manager and head of the Millwork group by 2025, earning two company Excellence Awards along the way. He has overseen project managers, superintendents, estimators, and quality control across a portfolio carrying roughly $30M in annual revenue. A Certified Millwork Professional and Procore-certified PM, Beau is passionate about fostering collaboration and aligning the team to deliver high-quality construction outcomes.

$30M
Annual revenue managed
Excellence Awards
Procore
PM & Millwork Certified
Development partners

An ownership-side team, embedded.

Working with Rowdy Red activates Brick & Timber Collective — a San Francisco development firm focused on repositioning architecturally significant assets — as an ownership-minded advisory layer alongside the construction team.

Glenn Gilmore
Development Partner · Executive Oversight

Glenn Gilmore

Two-plus decades as a real estate executive and developer, preceded by senior leadership at one of the largest global facilities-management firms. Glenn reads buildings as dynamic systems — lifecycle cost, operational performance, and the downstream implications of every construction decision.

20+ yrs
RE & facilities leadership
Global FM
Operations background
Jesse Feldman
Development Partner · Entitlements & Policy

Jesse Feldman

More than $10B in approved development — private work for major institutional clients and public-sector advisory across the region's leading agencies. Jesse de-risks the most unpredictable part of delivery by actively managing regulatory pathways so approvals track the schedule.

$10B+
Approved development
Public + Private
Entitlement strategy
Tommy Beritzhoff
Development Partner · Execution & Owner Rep

Tommy Beritzhoff

Support across more than $1B of projects nationwide — commercial, residential, retail, and restaurant. Tommy operates with a builder's discipline and an owner's mindset, bridging strategy and execution in the field.

$1B+
Projects supported
4 sectors
Comm · Resi · Retail · F&B
Why Rowdy Red

What sets the work apart.

01

Historic specialists

Brick-and-timber and masonry-bearing-wall renovations delivered on the same blocks, in the same building types, again and again.

02

Real-time transparency

A fully integrated Procore platform gives owners live visibility into cost and schedule — variance reporting, not surprises.

03

Occupied-building fluency

Phased, low-disruption execution in live, tenant-occupied environments across our recent San Francisco portfolio.

04

Senior team continuity

The leaders who win the work run the work — committed to the project for its full duration, not rotated off after award.

05

Established trade partners

Union MEP relationships aligned with San Francisco's permitting and inspection cadence keep approvals moving.

06

Developer's perspective

An embedded ownership-side advisory layer connects design intent, construction reality, and long-term asset performance.

Let's build

Bring us the building no one else wants to touch.

That's the work we pursue. Tell us what you're planning.