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Murdered Stockton Developer Remembered As A Driving Force In Improving Downtown

STOCKTON (CBS13) — A vigil is set for a prominent Stockton developer who was mysteriously killed and left in a gutter not far from his home over the weekend.

People who knew and respected Tim Egkan's work as a driving force in the revitalization of Downtown Stockton.

People who knew him, say he had a vision and vigorous enthusiasm to change the city for the better.

A memorial now sits where his body was found early Sunday morning in a gutter near Poplar and Lincoln streets, just blocks from his home. Reward posters with his picture line the streets of the neighborhood.

Hours before he was found dead, Egkan had spent the day with several Bay Area artists touting the city's potential and giving tours of downtown.

"It was a really joyful day, it was a great tour and some wonderful things came out of that, and then the following day we got this really tragic news," said Stockton Downtown Alliance CEO Cindi Fargo.

She says his development company, Ten Space, was responsible for several new revitalization projects, like a technology incubator called Huddle.

"Tim was a driving force behind ten space, he was really committed to the Ten Space vision of revitalization of downtown and the economic opportunities associated with that," she said.

Fargo says the company also had plans for more projects to improve downtown.

"We all need leaders; we all need people who speak out for the new urban concepts that Stockton can embrace and Tim was certainly a speaker on behalf of the future of Stockton," she said.

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