OpenAI Scouts Multiple Silicon Valley Campuses as AI Firms Push South of Their San Francisco Base
As it hunts for room to grow, OpenAI has toured a cluster of the region's biggest available office campuses—among them Mountain View's The...
Seven Equity Group Buys Westfield’s Twin Mission St. Buildings for $15.5MM in San Francisco, a 63% Decline in Value
814 and 818 Mission St. traded to entities linked to Seven Equity Group for roughly $15.5 million combined, landing almost exactly within the...
Kaiser Permanente Tops Out $1B, 662,000 SQFT Railyards Medical Center in Downtown Sacramento
Kaiser Permanente placed the final steel beam atop its eight-story Railyards Medical Center, structurally completing the first full-service hospital ever built in downtown...
Newsom Weighs Bill Licensing the Cash-Advance and Factoring Firms Bankrolling Bay Area Small Businesses
California lawmakers have handed Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would make the state the first in the country to require merchant cash...
California Falls to Third in Battery Storage as Siting Fights Reroute Bay Area Projects
California installed 3.6 gigawatt-hours of battery storage in the second quarter and finished behind Arizona and Texas in the largest quarter the national...
Steph Curry Sells Former Dogpatch HQ Site to Corgi-Linked Buyer for $11MM
Corgi, an AI insurance startup now valued at $2.6 billion, has purchased the Dogpatch building Steph Curry once planned to redevelop, joining a...
Pendulum Property Partners Acquires 747 Front St. for $49MM via Foreclosure in San Francisco’s Jackson Square
Pendulum’s $49 million buy comes in at roughly $600 per square foot, well below the $834 the building fetched in 2019. Orange County-based...
Hinge Health Signs 119,000 SQFT Lease at 300 Mission St., Doubling San Francisco Footprint
The 11-year lease lands in the South Financial District, the submarket now driving most of San Francisco’s office recovery. Hinge Health has more...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
Kenson Ventures, Wheatley Properties Buy 96,000 SQFT Lurie Building in San Francisco for $25.2MM
A partnership of two Silicon Valley investors has acquired the 96,000-square-foot Lurie Building in San Francisco's Financial District for $25.2 million, wagering that...
California Directs $267MM to Caldecott Tunnel Overhaul on East Bay’s Highway 24
California has earmarked $267 million to rehabilitate and reventilate three of the four bores at the East Bay’s Caldecott Tunnel, funding a long-planned...
Hacienda Preserves Robust Performance through August 2026
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use hub in Northern California, showed resilient market health throughout August 2026. While space utilization dipped slightly over the month...
OpenAI Scouts Multiple Silicon Valley Campuses as AI Firms Push South of Their San Francisco Base
As it hunts for room to grow, OpenAI has toured a cluster of the region's biggest available office campuses—among them Mountain View's The...
Newsom Weighs Bill Licensing the Cash-Advance and Factoring Firms Bankrolling Bay Area Small Businesses
California lawmakers have handed Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would make the state the first in the country to require merchant cash...
California Falls to Third in Battery Storage as Siting Fights Reroute Bay Area Projects
California installed 3.6 gigawatt-hours of battery storage in the second quarter and finished behind Arizona and Texas in the largest quarter the national...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
San Jose Logs Nation’s Largest Weekly Office Occupancy Gain but Still Ranks Ninth of 10 Metros
San Jose posted the largest single-week occupancy gain of any major U.S. office market yet still ranked second-to-last in Kastle Systems’ badge-swipe index,...
Palo Alto Completes San Francisco Bay’s First ‘Horizontal Levee,’ a $4.6MM Blueprint for Shoreline Defense
The City of Palo Alto and regional partners have finished the San Francisco Bay shoreline's first horizontal levee, a $4.6 million pilot at...
Northern California Commercial Real Estate News
Hacienda Preserves Robust Performance through August 2026
Hacienda, the premier mixed-use hub in Northern California, showed resilient market health throughout August 2026. While space utilization dipped slightly over the...
Continue ReadingOpenAI Scouts Multiple Silicon Valley Campuses as AI Firms Push South of Their San Francisco Base
As it hunts for room to grow, OpenAI has toured a cluster of the region's biggest available office campuses—among them Mountain View's The...
Tishman Speyer Sells 138,000 SQFT Downtown Mountain View Office Building to Spear Street Capital for $121.5MM
Tishman Speyer has cashed out of one of its longest-held Silicon Valley assets, handing 400 Castro Street to Spear Street Capital at a...
Chicago Title Company Signs New Office Lease at Pleasanton’s Oakview Plaza
Chicago Title Company has leased space at Oakview Plaza in Pleasanton’s Bernal Corporate Park, with Cushman & Wakefield representing both the landlord and...
TMG, Grove and Lone Star Acquire 2.2MM SQFT Silicon Valley R&D Portfolio for Under $650MM
TMG and Grove step in as operating partners on a 140-acre, six-campus R&D platform even as vacancy climbs and per-square-foot pricing lags well...
Google Seeks 250MW for San Jose Chip R&D Hub, a Power Load Rivaling an Entire Bay Area County
Google's push to power a sprawling chip-testing complex in North San Jose has collided with California's fight over who foots the bill for...
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...
Sares Regis Elevates Drew Hudacek and Dave Hopkins to Co-CEOs as Founders Set Succession in Motion
Sares Regis Group of Northern California has handed day-to-day command of one of the Bay Area's most active development firms to two longtime...
Coblentz Expands Construction and Litigation Capabilities with the Arrival of New Partner Raymond Buddie
San Francisco-based law firm Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP is pleased to welcome Raymond Buddie to the firm’s partnership. Ray brings more...
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...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
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...
San Jose Logs Nation’s Largest Weekly Office Occupancy Gain but Still Ranks Ninth of 10 Metros
San Jose posted the largest single-week occupancy gain of any major U.S. office market yet still ranked second-to-last in Kastle Systems’ badge-swipe index,...
Sares Regis Elevates Drew Hudacek and Dave Hopkins to Co-CEOs as Founders Set Succession in Motion
Sares Regis Group of Northern California has handed day-to-day command of one of the Bay Area's most active development firms to two longtime...
Strada Investment Group Buys Campbell’s 267,000 SQFT Vasona Tech Park for $115MM
Strada Investment Group paid roughly $431 per square foot for the Campbell campus, a steep discount to the $551 per square foot Kennedy...
Pacific Development Files Plans for 444-Unit Apartment Tower on Campbell’s South Bascom Avenue
A 3.5-acre South Bascom Avenue office-and-retail center is the latest Campbell property targeted for a major housing conversion, with Pacific Development proposing an...
FivePoint Breaks Ground on 7,200-Home Candlestick Point Megaproject in San Francisco
FivePoint launched construction on its long-stalled Candlestick Point development on Wednesday, breaking ground on a roughly 270-acre plan to convert the former stadium...
AVEVA Exits San Leandro Tech Campus, Putting 110,000 SQFT Back on the Market
AVEVA, the industrial software company owned by France's Schneider Electric, is relocating to San Francisco and giving back most of its East Bay...
North Palisade Partners to Cut Ribbon on 70,000 SQFT Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Fremont
North Palisade Partners is preparing to formally open the Palisade Fremont Innovation Center, a $30 million, Class-A advanced manufacturing facility that lands in...
Lincoln Property Pays $31.6MM for Golden Gate University’s San Francisco Campus, Plans 46-Story Tower
Golden Gate University has vacated its longtime downtown San Francisco campus after finalizing the sale of the property to a developer proposing one...
