Acclaimed Global Architect Designs New Apple Spread
Apple’s new three million square-foot campus will be a world apart in Silicon Valley.
From The Registry July/August 2011 Issue.
Sharon Simonson
To the average Joe, the name Sir Norman Foster isn’t...
Pension Fund Blesses Millions in Real Estate Investments
Jon Peterson
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System has approved $665 million worth of real property purchases, the vast majority—all but $140 million—aimed at the least risky segment of the...
CalPERS Reconfigures Huge Industrial Portfolio
Jon PetersonIn December, the California Public Employees' Retirement System replaced longtime partners LaSalle Investment Management as the overseer of nearly $2 billion in industrial real estate.
All but $60 million...
SF Market Street Building Near Twitter Up For Grabs
Jon Peterson
The California State Compensation Insurance Fund has put its downtown San Francisco headquarters up for sale. The 1275 Market St. property is next door to the proposed headquarters...
Bay Area Retail Leads National Recovery
Sharon Simonson
San Francisco and the South Bay are among the top 10 healthiest retail markets in the nation, according to a new report from ChainLinks Retail Advisors, a network...
CalSTRS Allocates $400M to Senior Housing and Industrial
By Jon Peterson
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System is going long on the old.
The second-largest public employee retirement plan in the country expects to invest an additional $100 million...
Caltrain Slides Closer To Big Service Cuts
By Sharon Simonson
The Caltrain governing board is expected to declare a fiscal emergency for the beleaguered commuter-rail service at a March 3 board meeting. Such a declaration would allow...
CalPERS Recommits to Real Estate
By Jon Peterson
CalPERS could invest as much as $1.5 billion in commercial real estate next year, up from a fraction of that sum in the previous 12 months as...
BRE Apartments Building, Buying
By Sharon Simonson
San Francisco-based apartment owner BRE Properties Inc. told analysts it did not expect to buy nearly as much in 2011 as it did last year because prices...
Industrial Giant To Span Globe, Bay Area
By Sharon Simonson
The merged AMB Property Corp. and ProLogis company would own and manage close to 19 million square feet of Bay Area industrial property, according to research from...
