New York Private-Equity Firm Buys First San Francisco Building
By Jon Peterson
New York City-based Brickman, a real estate private equity company, has agreed to buy 550 Kearny St., its first San Francisco Bay Area property. The company is...
Rising Rents Push Manufacturer to Buy in Silicon Valley
By Sharon Simonson
Skyrocketing rental rates in its Sunnyvale hometown drove biomedical device-maker Zoll Medical Corp. to search for alternate digs and ultimately to buy a manufacturing building in San...
Expert: Silicon Valley Manufacturing Leads New Thinking
By Sharon Simonson
Want to know the source of Bay Area innovation? Look no further than its manufacturing base, argues Howard Wial, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and...
Apple, Twitter Begin Big Sunnyvale Tenant Improvements
By Jon Peterson and Sharon Simonson
The Moffett Park submarket of Sunnyvale, where Jay Paul Co. has worked its magic, continues to attract investor interest as tenants including Apple Inc.,...
Macerich Plans Rebuild, Expansion of Walnut Creek Mall
By Jon Peterson
The Macerich Co. plans to invest up to $260 million in expansion and redevelopment of the 778,000-square-foot Broadway Plaza Shopping Center in downtown Walnut Creek. This would...
Lumosity Expands in San Francisco with Lease at 140 New Montgomery
By Jon Peterson
San Francisco-based Lumosity, the online brain-training company, expects to sign a lease to occupy 36,000 square feet at 140 New Montgomery St. in San Francisco, a historic...
Kilroy Wants San Francisco’s First Net-Zero Office Building
By Sharon Simonson
Kilroy Realty Corp. is seeking to create San Francisco’s first office building capable of operating on a net-zero-energy basis, hiring respected architect William McDonough to work the...
Rockwood Capital Pursues San Francisco Design District Redevelopment
By Jon Peterson
White Plains, N.Y., -based Rockwood Capital LLC has paid $4.1 million an acre for a Showplace Square site near the California College of the Arts where it...
Urban Commons Buys San Jose Airport Hotel
By Jon Peterson
Los Angeles-based Urban Commons LLC has closed on its first San Francisco Bay Area hotel acquisition with the $15.2 million purchase of the 196-room Radisson Plaza San...
Developers Push To Permit Construction on Former Cisco Property
By Sharon Simonson
SAN JOSE—A preliminary plan from Trammell Crow Co. to build more than a million square feet of warehousing and office space on a tract it has acquired...
