Commercial
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Capmark Puts Silicon Valley Office Portfolio on the Market
By Jon Peterson Horsham, Penn.,-based Capmark Financial Group Inc. is selling a portfolio of eight Silicon Valley office and research and development buildings...
Broadreach Defaults on Mountain View Property Loan
By Sharon Simonson Union Bank has filed a notice of default regarding a more than $60 million mortgage against a prominent Mountain View...