More than twenty-five years of experience have made Hugh Futrell Corporation one of the premier builders of single family and condominium residential neighborhoods, downtown mixed-use developments, rental communities and office and retail buildings throughout the North Bay.

The communities we live in are more than roads and utility lines, buildings and yards, fences and sidewalks. A community is a place that helps make life worth living--not for a few, not for some, but for all.

Each building, each subdivision, each development either adds to or subtracts from the richness of community life. It makes the community a better place--or a worse one.
Developers and builders have a moral responsibility. We have an obligation to demand good design, and to work inside urban boundaries--not sprawl across agricultural lands. We have a duty to protect and strengthen old neighborhoods and create true and vital new neighborhoods.

We have a responsibility to help make city centers thrive; to attend to the social needs of the community; to make it easier for our customers to live near where they work, and for their work environments to be worth working in.

At Hugh Futrell Corporation we define our success by how well we meet these responsibilities.


Hugh Futrell, President../Principal Shareholder
e-mail: hughf@hughfutrellcorp.com


A native Santa Rosan and graduate of the University of California, Hugh Futrell has been working in land use and construction management since 1979 and as a principal since 1983. Working closely with project architects he acts as lead project manager and site planner through the design and entitlement phase and provides overall coordination and budget analysis for the firm’s projects.

His extensive public involvement includes being elected twice to the Santa Rosa City Schools Board, serving 1996-2004; chair of the Santa Rosa Redevelopment Board, Housing Commission and Mobile Home Park Policy Board; board member of Santa Rosa Main Street, Sonoma County Drug Abuse Council, and the Committee to Restore Santa Rosa Creek.


Bill Carle, Executive Vice President../Principal Shareholder

e-mail: bcarle@cgfequities.com


A graduate of University of California, Berkeley and licensed attorney and real estate broker since 1980, Bill Carle has lived in Santa Rosa since 1982. He was a founding partner and remains of counsel to the law firm of Carle, Mackie, Power and Ross, where he dealt with real estate and land use issues throughout Northern California. He has served as a judge pro tem for Sonoma County Superior Court, and as a private arbitrator and mediator. He is principally responsible for acquisition and entitlement of the firm’s projects in the North Bay.

His extensive public service involvement includes being twice elected to the Santa Rosa City Schools Board, serving 1998-2006, President of the Committee for Restoring Santa Rosa Creek, Founding Member and First Chair of the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District Advisory Committee, and serving on the Executive Committee and Board of the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce and the Boards of the Sonoma County American Red Cross, Polly Klass Foundation and the Community Child Care Council.