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Pritzker and Sares Regis Partner in Northern California
By Jon Peterson Chicago-based Pritzker Realty Group LLC has partnered with San Mateo’s Sares Regis Group Northern California to be its West Coast developer for...
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...
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...
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...
Silicon Valley’s New Corporate Campuses Shed Dim Light on Workplace Stock
By Sharon Simonson As much effort as has been expended to explain the San Francisco workplace revolution, Silicon Valley workspace is in a...
Design Activist: Worker Identity Leads Next Workplace ‘Megatrend’
By Sharon Simonson World citizen Uday Dandavate is one chief executive whose company won’t occupy a campus and who would never advise anyone...
Kilroy Says: Continued Strong Demand for Development
By Sharon Simonson Kilroy Realty Corp. has moved an estimated 70 percent of its office portfolio to match what it says are new norms...
Boston Properties Builds San Francisco, Exits Downtown San Jose
By Sharon Simonson Even as office landlord Boston Properties aggressively pursues San Francisco office construction, including speculative development, and beefs up its ownership...
BRE Starts Construction on Mission Bay Project
By Jon Peterson San Francisco-based BRE Properties Inc. has begun vertical construction on its 360-unit MB360 apartment development in the Mission Bay area...
Orphaned Knight-Ridder Sign in Downtown San Jose To Go
By Jon Peterson The iconic Knight-Ridder Inc. sign atop the 344,000-square-foot Fairmont Office Plaza in downtown San Jose will finally change, six years...
Economic Revival To Transform West Oakland Historic Factory
By Sharon Simonson Oakland live-work developer John Protopappas and a team of investors have begun interior demolition and the seismic upgrade of a...
More Speculative Development Planned for Silicon Valley
By Jon Peterson Principal Real Estate Investors, the equity behind development of 57 acres in North San Jose once owned by Cisco Systems...