Urban Commons Buys San Jose Airport Hotel
By Jon Peterson Los Angeles-based Urban Commons LLC has closed on its first San Francisco Bay Area hotel acquisition with the $15.2 million purchase of the 196-room Radisson Plaza..
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Developers Push To Permit Construction on Former Cisco Property
By Sharon Simonson SAN JOSE—A preliminary plan from Trammell Crow Co. to build more than a million square feet of warehousing and office space on a tract it has acquired from..
Netflix Has Right To Terminate Los Gatos Lease
By Sharon Simonson The Los Gatos Town Council has postponed—yet again—its decision on whether to permit a 550,000 square-foot corporate campus being sought by Netflix Inc.,..
Deep Discount for CBRE in San Jose
By Jon Peterson Los Angeles-based CBRE Global Investors got such a good deal on the 506-room San Jose Marriott Hotel that it has made the downtown Convention Center property its..
Foreigners Finance Real Estate Development To Gain U.S. Citizenship
By Sharon Simonson People seeking U.S. citizenship are financing Bay Area real estate projects using an obscure federal immigration program that grants green cards in exchange for..
Whither Downtown San Jose?
By Sharon Simonson When Boston Properties’ executives meet with San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and downtown San Jose Councilmember Sam Liccardo this week, it will be one of an..
Bay Area’s Great Bill Wilson Passes
By Vladimir Bosanac Last week, on May 7, the Bay Area real estate industry was left without a pillar of its community. William “Bill” Wilson III lost a long battle with cancer..
Marcus & Millichap Bay Area Real Estate Forecast: More and Better
By Sharon Simonson San Francisco Bay Area employment remains below its dot-com peak, but today’s jobs in technology and business and professional services are more lasting..
San Francisco’s Picturesque Renoir Hotel to Return to Historic Masterpiece
By Sharon Simonson Federal tax credits and a federal immigrant-investor program are helping to finance the redevelopment of San Francisco’s Renoir Hotel, an aging beauty in the..
Rising Tide In Redwood Shores
By Jon Peterson The sale of a nearly 90,000-square-foot Redwood City office complex has earned the seller a more than $14 million profit after less than 30 months. Los..
