Bay Area Still Leads in Workplace Transformation
By Jacob Bourne
Design professionals are at the forefront of sweeping changes occurring in many workplaces on an international level, however these changes are especially salient in the Bay Area...
Swift Selected as Buyer of 1390 Market in San Francisco for $110MM
By Jon Peterson
San Francisco-based Swift Real Estate Partners has been awarded a contract to acquire the 1390 Market office building in San Francisco for $110 million, according to sources...
Gilbane Uses Gamers to Reinvent Design & Construction Process
By Meghan Hall
Providence, RI-based Gilbane Building Company is one of several real estate and construction companies looking for ways to integrate technology in its daily work. For Gilbane, the...
McNellis: Density and California’s Senate Bill 827
By John McNellis
Give Scott Weiner a medal. While not a complete solution, the state senator’s proposed bill, SB 827, directly addresses California’s two most pressing issues—our housing shortage and...
Google Spends Another $79.6MM on Two Properties in San Jose and Mountain View
By Vladimir Bosanac
Google’s insatiable demand for real estate in Silicon Valley continues unabated, as the company continues to gobble up available real estate next to properties that it already...
DivcoWest Sells Plaza San Ramon for $72.2MM
By Vladimir Bosanac
San Francisco-based DivcoWest has completed the sale of Plaza San Ramon, a two building Class B office complex totaling approximately 312,000 square feet at 2000-2010 Crow Canyon...
San Jose Parking Lot Sells for $25.7MM
By Vladimir Bosanac
Interest in San Jose properties continues unabated. An entity that recently purchased the Bank of Italy building in downtown San Jose late last year, is continuing to...
Gaw Capital in Talks to Buy HNA’s 123 Mission St. Property in San Francisco
By Vladimir Bosanac
HNA Group, the Chinese conglomerate that has been on a spending spree over the last few years, seems to have hit a wall. Numerous reports cite an...
Hunter Storm Pays $34MM for Additional Land Next to Its Burgeoning Coleman Highline Campus
By Vladimir Bosanac
On the heels of announcing the first lease at its 1.5-million-square-foot, Gensler-designed Coleman Highline project in San Jose, Cupertino-based Hunter Storm took additional land next to the...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Reverses Months-Long Decision to Locate in Santa Clara, Picks San Jose...
By Vladimir Bosanac
Months after Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that it would be moving its corporate headquarters to Santa Clara from Palo Alto, the company made a decision instead that...