Western Union’s Digital Manifest Destiny
Western Union, the money transfer company, has its Digital Ventures up and running in China Basin. Fennie + Mehl Architects did the interior design work for the Western Union office.
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Kilroy Realty Corp. Willing to Go Spec All the Way
333 Brannan Street in San Francisco
By Sharon Simonson
Office landlord Kilroy Realty Corp. would begin construction next year on a speculative basis at both of the San Francisco office-development sites...
Publics Gobble Up Bay Area Real Estate
| By Sharon Simonson |
Publicly traded real estate investment trusts are pouring billions of dollars into the San Francisco Bay Area to acquire, develop and redevelop properties in what many...
Boston Properties to Invest $1.4B in Two San Francisco Buildings
By Sharon Simonson
Boston Properties Inc. considered buying San Francisco’s 101 California St. from the Hines company but instead decided to develop the Transbay Tower with them: The yield will...
Japanese Retailer Likes Bay Area Urban Cores
By Sharon Simonson
A Japanese retailer whose brand image echoes American society’s current quest for a more sustainable lifestyle is opening a 7,000-square-foot store in downtown San Jose, its second...
Revolutionary Workplace Challenges Next Century Landlords
| By Sharon Simonson |
Office owners face new attitudes and risks in the real estate of the 21st century, where easy change is the number-one priority and long-term leases for...
Cohen Buys Burlingame Site for Redevelopment Potential
By Jon Peterson
Los Angeles-based Cohen Asset Management Inc. has paid more than $7 million to acquire 2.5 acres at 836 Cowan Road in Burlingame with an eye toward redevelopment...
Target Puts Bull’s-Eye on Geary Location in San Francisco
By Sharon Simonson
Even as Swinerton Builders celebrates the grand opening of San Francisco’s first CityTarget at the Metreon, the general contractor has begun interiors work to ready the second...
Hines Sells 100 Montgomery For Twice What it Paid
By Jon Peterson
Houston-based Hines is in contract to sell the 424,000-square-foot 100 Montgomery offices in downtown San Francisco for $165 million, or more than $388 a foot, to Chicago-based...
San Francisco, Peninsula, Silicon Valley Leasing Are Mixed Bag
By Sharon Simonson
Silicon Valley saw strong office occupancy expansion in the third quarter even as San Francisco and San Mateo counties struggled.
According to numbers being released Oct. 12 by...
