Since leaving professional politics in 1995, Clint Reilly has founded a growing and diversifying family of small businesses.
Through Clinton Reilly Holdings, a real estate investment firm, Mr. Reilly wholly owns and manages five commercial office buildings in San Francisco and Sacramento, with a combined 426,000 square feet of lease-able space.
On the ground floor of one of those properties, at 360 Pine Street, in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district, Mr. Reilly is in the process of opening his latest business venture, a new restaurant, called Credo.
His principal business asset, however, is the Merchants Exchange Building, one of San Francisco’s most historic downtown structures and one of several iconic buildings designed by Willis Polk, head of the San Francisco office of famed Chicago-based architect Daniel H. Burnham.
Other local Polk projects include the Hallidie Building, Kezar Stadium, the Pacific Union Club on Nob Hill, the restoration of Mission Dolores and many private Bay Area residences.
In 1999, Mr. Reilly began a full-scale renovation of the Merchants Exchange, including a complete remodeling of the former Commercial Club, now the Julia Morgan Ballroom. Morgan and her architecture firm made the Merchants Exchange their home for 50 years and she was perhaps its most famous tenant.
Today, the ballroom bearing Julia Morgan’s name is operated by Mr. Reilly as one of San Francisco’s premier event facilities.