MiTAC Locks Up All Six Buildings at Fremont’s 473,000 SQFT Campus at Bayside
A server-manufacturing unit of Taiwan's MiTAC Holdings Corp. has committed to the final three buildings at Fremont's Campus at Bayside, taking control of...
Wismettac Asian Foods Leases 175,000 SQFT at BlackRock’s The Crossings @ 880 in Fremont
Wismettac Asian Foods, the century-old Asian food importer and distributor, has committed to 174,578 square feet of warehouse and distribution space at BlackRock's...
Amazon Advances $2B, 439,000 SQFT Data Center Campus in Gilroy as Approval Path Narrows for Developers
Amazon Web Services has begun construction on a two-building, 438,500-square-foot data center campus in Gilroy, a roughly $2 billion project that advanced through...
TNDC and Chinatown CDC Open 160-Unit, $153MM Affordable Housing Complex at 730 Stanyan in San Francisco
The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and Chinatown Community Development Center have opened 730 Stanyan, a $153.2 million, 160-unit affordable housing complex on a...
Why the San Francisco Bay Area Is Missing From the 2026 Apartment Absorption Leaderboard
The San Francisco Bay Area was conspicuously missing from a national ranking of the strongest apartment markets for first-half 2026 net absorption, an...
Bloom Energy Eyes 159,000 SQFT Fremont Plant to Feed AI-Driven Power Boom
Fresh off its first billion-dollar quarter, the San Jose fuel-cell maker is moving to expand its Fremont manufacturing base — reportedly through a...
Bezos’ Project Prometheus Signs 100,000 SQFT Manufacturing Lease in West Oakland
Jeff Bezos’ stealth AI startup has landed in West Oakland just as East Bay industrial landlords report renewed demand from the exact category...
Pacific Castle Acquires 118,000 SQFT Cedar Tree Village Center for $20.8MM in Fresno
Irvine-based Pacific Castle has purchased Fresno’s grocery-anchored Cedar Tree Village Shopping Center for $20.8 million, ending more than four decades of ownership by...
Bezos’ Project Prometheus Signs 100,000 SQFT Manufacturing Lease in West Oakland
Jeff Bezos’ stealth AI startup has landed in West Oakland just as East Bay industrial landlords report renewed demand from the exact category...
Eight-Story, 151-Unit Condo Project Would Replace Burger King on San Mateo’s El Camino Real
A Livermore-based ownership group has filed a preliminary application under California's Housing Crisis Act to demolish the drive-thru Burger King at El Camino...
WareSpace Targets San Francisco Expansion, Backed by Jadian’s $500MM Commitment
WareSpace, the small-warehouse platform backed by a newly enlarged $500 million commitment from Jadian Capital, has named San Francisco among its next expansion...
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...
Why the San Francisco Bay Area Is Missing From the 2026 Apartment Absorption Leaderboard
The San Francisco Bay Area was conspicuously missing from a national ranking of the strongest apartment markets for first-half 2026 net absorption, an...
WareSpace Targets San Francisco Expansion, Backed by Jadian’s $500MM Commitment
WareSpace, the small-warehouse platform backed by a newly enlarged $500 million commitment from Jadian Capital, has named San Francisco among its next expansion...
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.
PG&E Chases 12.7 GW of AI Data Center Demand as Texas Fights to Pull It Away
A century-old utility built to sell less electricity has stood up an economic-development team to court AI data centers, but the contest now...
Joby’s New Vertiport Developer Names California, the One Launch Market Without Federal Cover
Atoms, Travis Kalanick's post-Uber holding company, will develop Joby Aviation's air-taxi stations in California, but the state is the only one of the...
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MiTAC Locks Up All Six Buildings at Fremont’s 473,000 SQFT Campus at Bayside
A server-manufacturing unit of Taiwan's MiTAC Holdings Corp. has committed to the final three buildings at Fremont's Campus at Bayside, taking control of...
Beacon Capital Lists 273,000 SQFT 655 Montgomery in San Francisco with $150MM Guidance
Beacon Capital Partners has enlisted JLL to sell 655 Montgomery Street, an 87 percent-leased Class A tower facing the Transamerica Pyramid, betting that...
Government and Healthcare Carry Sacramento Office Market as Vacancy Falls to 15.7% and Leasing Drops 28%
Sacramento’s office vacancy declined and absorption turned positive in the second quarter, but every one of the market’s five largest leases went to...
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...
Clint Reilly, Political Operative Turned $400MM San Francisco Property Owner, Dies at 79
Clint Reilly, who parlayed a career as one of California’s most influential campaign strategists into a nine-figure San Francisco real estate and media...
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...
Lurie Taps Real Estate Veteran to Run Port of San Francisco as Waterfront Development Pipeline Swells
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing...
Berkadia Taps Veteran Multifamily Executive as Chief Revenue Officer to Unify Mortgage Banking and Investment Sales Platforms
Berkadia has appointed a veteran multifamily capital markets executive as its new Chief Revenue Officer, tasking him with unifying and scaling the firm’s...
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)...
Federal Realty Advances Santana Row’s Lot 12 in San Jose as Record Quarter Fuels Residential Push
Federal Realty Investment Trust told analysts its Lot 12 residential project at San Jose's Santana Row remains on time and on budget for...
PG&E Chases 12.7 GW of AI Data Center Demand as Texas Fights to Pull It Away
A century-old utility built to sell less electricity has stood up an economic-development team to court AI data centers, but the contest now...
MIR Mosaic Relocates Headquarters to 90,000 SQFT Morgan Hill Building in $19.6MM Butterfield 5 Deal
Wholesale tile distributor MIR Mosaic is trading its longtime San Jose base for a larger building at Morgan Hill's Butterfield 5 industrial park,...
Joby’s New Vertiport Developer Names California, the One Launch Market Without Federal Cover
Atoms, Travis Kalanick's post-Uber holding company, will develop Joby Aviation's air-taxi stations in California, but the state is the only one of the...
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...
SFPUC Moves to Extend Islais Creek Wastewater Bypass 25 Years
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is retooling a “temporary” wastewater pipeline across Islais Creek into a 25-year fixture, opting for a leaner...
Rainbow Housing Assistance Corp Acquires 231-Unit City Towers for $35.2MM in West Oakland
Rainbow Housing Assistance Corp. closed on a $35.2 million acquisition of City Towers, a 231-unit high-rise complex in West Oakland, preserving the property’s...
Kimco Realty Seeks Four-Year Extension as San Jose’s Cambrian Park Plaza Redevelopment Stalls
Six years after San Jose blessed one of its most ambitious suburban makeovers, the owner of Cambrian Park Plaza is asking the city...
