Revolution Medicines Bets 700,000 SQFT on Farallon’s Former Google Campus in Redwood City
Revolution Medicines, the fast-growing developer racing toward its first commercial cancer drug, is in advanced talks for roughly 700,000 square feet at Pacific...
Neuralink Extends 48,000 SQFT Fremont Lease at Ardenwood Research Center in Quarter’s Fourth-Largest Life Science Deal
Elon Musk's Neuralink has extended its lease on 48,240 square feet at the Ardenwood Research Center on Paseo Padre Parkway in Fremont, a...
107,000 SQFT Hobby Lobby and Round 1 Block at Hayward’s Southland Mall Hits Market at $18.7MM, 7.75% CAP
A fully leased, 106,609-square-foot block of Southland Mall anchored by Hobby Lobby and Round 1 Entertainment is being offered at $176 per square...
Alameda Unified Completes $298MM Measure B-Funded Wood Middle School Rebuild
Facing a structurally outdated three-story classroom building, Alameda Unified opted for a full rebuild over renovation, using Measure B bond dollars to reshape...
Behring Plans 20,000 SQFT AI Data Center at Former Berkeley Lab Site in Oakland
A vacant supercomputer building that a national developer once eyed for a 39-story office tower before abandoning the plan is instead becoming ground...
US Retailers Swing to 26.1MM SQFT of Net Growth in 2026 as Bay Area Chains Expand
American retailers have announced enough new store space this year to reverse a multi-year run of contraction, and several of the chains powering...
Madison Park Doubles Down on Oakland Multifamily as AI Boom Widens the Rent Gap With San Francisco
Madison Park is preparing a concentrated wave of new investment across the East Bay, betting that San Francisco's AI hiring surge has already...
Four Corners Properties Lands $67.4MM Bridge Loan to Redevelop 206,000 SQFT Forge North First Campus in San Jose
Four Corners Properties and an institutional partner have secured a $67.4 million bridge loan to fund the redevelopment of Forge North First, a...
Black Cultural Zone Acquires Vacant East Oakland Lot for $10 in Alameda County’s First Chapter 8 Housing Deal in Nine Years
Alameda County transferred a long-abandoned, tax-defaulted parcel on MacArthur Boulevard to a Black-led nonprofit developer for a nominal $10, reviving a dormant state...
Acclaim Companies Lands Unanimous Palo Alto Approval for 228-Unit, Eight-Story Housing Project at 762 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto's City Council has cleared Acclaim Companies to replace a family-run commercial truck lot with a 228-unit, eight-story residential building, advancing an...
Vacant Dublin Gateway Office Reborn as 150,000 SQFT Private School
The BASIS Independent network's move into a long-empty building at 7950 Dublin Blvd. hands the Tri-Valley office market a rare full-building absorption at...
Hacienda Posts Continued Gains in Q2 2026
Hacienda, Northern California’s largest mixed-use development, continued to strengthen its market position during the second quarter of 2026, supported by improving occupancy, positive...
US Retailers Swing to 26.1MM SQFT of Net Growth in 2026 as Bay Area Chains Expand
American retailers have announced enough new store space this year to reverse a multi-year run of contraction, and several of the chains powering...
Madison Park Doubles Down on Oakland Multifamily as AI Boom Widens the Rent Gap With San Francisco
Madison Park is preparing a concentrated wave of new investment across the East Bay, betting that San Francisco's AI hiring surge has already...
Vanguard Properties Acquires Oakland’s Abio Properties, Pushing Into East Bay Against Compass
San Francisco's largest independent brokerage is absorbing 10-year-old Abio Properties and retiring its name, a defensive East Bay expansion as Compass consolidates the...
Northern California Sidelined in Data Center Boom as Power Limits Push Capacity to Texas
Northern California, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, now holds barely 1 gigawatt of data center capacity and does not rank among North America's...
Controller Pegs Prop G Great Highway Reopening at $9.8MM, Plus $1.9MM a Year
The first official cost estimate for Proposition G puts the price of returning weekday cars to the Upper Great Highway at $9.8 million...
San Francisco Lands Back-to-Back MLB and WNBA All-Star Games, Setting Up a Tourism and Retail Windfall
San Francisco has secured the 2027 WNBA All-Star Game at Chase Center and the 2028 MLB All-Star Game at Oracle Park within a...
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Revolution Medicines Bets 700,000 SQFT on Farallon’s Former Google Campus in Redwood City
Revolution Medicines, the fast-growing developer racing toward its first commercial cancer drug, is in advanced talks for roughly 700,000 square feet at Pacific...
Agility Robotics Lands 60,000 SQFT Physical AI Hub in Fremont, Adds Nearly 200 Jobs Ahead of Nasdaq Debut
Humanoid robotics developer Agility Robotics has opened a 60,000-square-foot artificial intelligence hub in Fremont, planting a Silicon Valley flag near Tesla's Optimus operations...
Alamar Biosciences Leases 65,000 SQFT Fremont Building in Quarter’s Second-Largest Life Science Deal
Alamar Biosciences, the Fremont-based precision proteomics company behind the NULISA platform, has committed to a 65,069-square-foot freestanding building at 3500 West Warren Avenue,...
Nevada PERS Nears $62.2MM Acquisition of 62,500 SQFT 1400 Veterans Medical Office Building in Redwood City
A Nevada public pension fund is closing on a Peninsula medical office building as part of an all-cash push to double its real...
DivcoWest Closes on 47.5% of San Francisco’s 101 California Tower in ~$450MM Trophy Office Deal
DivcoWest has completed its purchase of a 47.5 percent stake in 101 California Street, finalizing San Francisco’s largest office transaction in more than...
Bay Area Office Recovery Broadens as Vacancy Falls to 20% and Sublease Space Hits Six-Year Low
Colliers’ Q2 2026 report found Bay Area office vacancy fell to 20 percent and sublease space hit its lowest level since early 2020,...
Mohr Partners Taps East Bay Veteran Kam Schroeder as First President of Brokerage
Mohr Partners has recruited longtime East Bay broker Kam Schroeder to fill a newly created President of Brokerage post, betting on a 20-year...
Kilroy Realty CFO Jeffrey Kuehling Exits as Eliott Trencher Takes Interim Finance Helm
Kilroy Realty Corporation said Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Kuehling is departing the Los Angeles-based office and life science REIT effective immediately, handing interim...
Redwood City Elevates Two Veteran Insiders to Lead Public Works and Sustainability Push
Redwood City has handed the keys to its sprawling public works operation to two longtime insiders, promoting Adrian Lee to services director and...
San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. Taps Housing-Finance Veteran to Lead Office-to-Housing Conversion Push
The San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. has recruited longtime Enterprise Community Partners director Geeta Rao as its first vice president of real estate,...
Port of Oakland Commissioners Hand Board Presidency to Stephanie Dominguez Walton as Cargo Volumes Claw Back
The seven-member panel that governs Northern California’s third-busiest container gateway, a 20-mile stretch of Oakland waterfront and a rebounding regional airport has installed...
McNellis: One House, One Spouse — A Guide to CRE Wealth Preservation
Why razor-thin overhead and the 'one house, one spouse' rule are the keys to preserving wealth in real estate and in life.
Watch Rents Rise
By John Cumbelich Our firm recently completed a Q2 survey of the region’s 25 flagship Power Centers, in which we reported that occupancy...
McNellis: In Denial Over the New Normal
By John McNellis Developers always crash and burn in the movies. The eternal bad guy, the developers’ heinous plans to pave a beach,...
California Never: A New City That Keeps Changing Its Mind
Five identities in three years, zero houses, and one very nervous neighbor. Opinion by Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
The Art of the Quiet Exit, A Hudson Pacific Story
Hudson Pacific’s COO resigned with the usual boilerplate denial attached—but after a $572 million annual loss, a scrapped dividend and a stock down...
The Data Center Bargain: What Every Town Should Demand
Free power. Free heat. Clean water. The bargain every town should be demanding. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
Welltower Acquires 195-Unit Novelle Senior Living Community for $99.6MM in San Jose
Welltower closed an all-cash, $99.6 million purchase of the newly built Novelle Senior Living community in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood, a deal...
Vanguard Properties Acquires Oakland’s Abio Properties, Pushing Into East Bay Against Compass
San Francisco's largest independent brokerage is absorbing 10-year-old Abio Properties and retiring its name, a defensive East Bay expansion as Compass consolidates the...
MJD Capital’s Boatworks Mall Heads to $14.4MM Foreclosure Auction in Tahoe City
San Francisco developer MJD Capital Partners is poised to lose one of North Lake Tahoe's most recognizable waterfront properties, as its long-stalled plan...
Northern California Sidelined in Data Center Boom as Power Limits Push Capacity to Texas
Northern California, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, now holds barely 1 gigawatt of data center capacity and does not rank among North America's...
Controller Pegs Prop G Great Highway Reopening at $9.8MM, Plus $1.9MM a Year
The first official cost estimate for Proposition G puts the price of returning weekday cars to the Upper Great Highway at $9.8 million...
Miramar Capital Secures $16.5MM Cash-Out Refi for 99,300 SQFT Santa Clara Office
Priority Capital Advisory canvassed 101 lenders to land a $16.5 million non-recourse refinance for Miramar Capital’s Santa Clara office building, a deal that...
Menlo Equities Affiliate Pays $15.75MM, or $1,221 PSF, for Downtown Palo Alto Office
A small downtown Palo Alto office building just traded at a price per square foot that ranks among the highest paid for office...
AI Search Startup Exa Leases 40,000 SQFT Pioneer Building in San Francisco, Following OpenAI and xAI
Exa, the five-year-old artificial intelligence search company backed by Andreessen Horowitz, has signed a seven-year lease for the Mission District's landmark Pioneer Building,...