Ramos, de Vere White Brothers Part of Group Making New Plan for Club Pheasant in West Sacramento

An iconic site for West Sacramento is starting to get a new vision for the future, with the city working with a team of development and bar/restaurant veterans on what’s next for Club Pheasant.

As soon as next month, the development team hopes to go before the West Sacramento City Council to finalize the plan and financing strategy for the 114-year-old property at 2525 Jefferson Blvd., said team partner Dan Ramos of Ramco Enterprises Inc.

“We’re excited about it,” Ramos said, adding the concept for the site is still preliminary but coming together. “It’s a great site.”

Ramos said he, Mark Cordano and the de Vere White brothers are the plan partners, chosen by the city in response to a request for proposals.

The Ramos family controls West Sacramento-based fuel distributor Ramos Oil Company and has developed real estate projects such as Mace Ranch in Davis. The de Vere White brothers own bars and restaurants such as Ro Sham Beaux and The Snug in Sacramento. Cordano has developed projects including the Firestone Building in Midtown Sacramento and the Carlaw on Sacramento’s R Street Corridor.

Their plan calls for using the original Club Pheasant building and its surroundings for about three restaurant operators, Ramos said. Though he said he couldn’t reveal names, the concepts planned for the site are well-known local and regional restaurant operators with a track record of success.

If the plans can get finalized before year’s end, work could start next year on bringing the plan to life, Ramos said. He added with his family’s long history in West Sacramento and friendship with the Palamidessi family, the project has special significance for him. The Palamidessi family ran Club Pheasant for its 87-year history before family members retired and closed the restaurant in 2022.

To save it from being entirely redeveloped, West Sacramento bought the restaurant and its 2.15-acre site for $3.4 million in 2023, and enlisted Turton Commercial Real Estate to market the site for a new use.

Ramos said Preferred Capital Advisors is working with the development partners on a financing strategy for the project.

“We’re still in negotiations and looking at construction costs,” he said, noting those factors are hampering many projects from moving forward right now. “We’re hoping to get all the economics to work.”