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 former General Electric manufacturing plant in West...
Plant Construction Executive Grows Hope
By Sharon Simonson
The City of Hope Real Estate and Construction Council has selected Craig Allison, co-general partner of Plant Construction Co., as this year’s winner of its Spirit of Life...
Mountain View’s Climbing Ticket Price Doesn’t Faze
By Jon Peterson
The heady purchase price for a downtown Mountain View office building paid by Silicon Valley’s Menlo Equities brought little excitement from South Bay brokers who said the...
Ecommerce Is Driving Prologis’ Industrial Uptick
By Sharon Simonson
Industrial is eating retail.
Ecommerce-related demand for space is driving leasing in U.S. industrial markets, which recorded their best quarter of occupancy gains since 2000 from January through...
Rosen: Slow Recovery, Job Creation
By Sharon Simonson
The U.S. economy will grow less than 2 percent this year, a full percentage point below the 50-year average, and only slightly more jobs will be created...
Synaptics Headquarters’ Price Trades Down
By Sharon Simonson
Silicon Valley technology company Synaptics Inc. reduced the sale price of its Santa Clara headquarters to Orchard Partners and Apollo Global Real Estate by more than $1.5...
Key San Jose Site Up for Grabs for First Time in Four Decades
By Sharon Simonson
An 11.6-acre site on the west side of San Jose’s popping Santana Row shopping center is being brought to market for the first time in more than...
Customers Are Banging on Signature’s Doors at San Jose Airport
By Sharon Simonson
The Florida company building a private aircraft terminal at the San Jose airport has not marketed two new hangars that it will own beyond those that Google...
For Salesforce, Another Transbay Office Building Rises
By Sharon Simonson
Salesforce.com Inc., already the largest technology company employer in San Francisco with 4,000 workers, plans to double its real estate footprint in the city by 2016 to...
Lowe Enterprises Pursues Design of Newly Approved San Mateo Offices
By Sharon Simonson
Los Angeles-based Lowe Enterprises will decide this summer and fall whether to move forward with speculative office development in San Jose and San Mateo.
The real estate investment,...
