McNellis: Winter is Coming
By John McNellis
As of last Friday, the S&P 500 was down 2.33 percent for the year. Like a dead rat in the basement, everyone can smell the next recession,...
San Francisco Officially Passes its Long Awaited Central SOMA Plan
By M. Brett Gladstone, Esq., Partner, Hanson Bridgett LLP, San Francisco .
On December 4, 2018, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (on its second and final reading) approved the...
Mayor Liccardo: What Google Means for San Jose’s Future
About a year-and-a-half ago, the City initiated discussions with Google about how we could work together to realize our community's collective vision for creating a vibrant, architecturally iconic, transit-focused...
Ken Rosen’s Fall Forecast Sees Economy at a Peak
By Tom Wight
On Tuesday the Fisher Center held its 41st Annual Real Estate and Economics Symposium. In one of the most highly anticipated presentations of the year, Fisher Center...
As the Open Office Debate Intensifies, It’s Time to Reach Common Ground
By Robin Weckesser, President, a3 Workplace Strategies
Recent studies have workplaces stirring again about an ongoing, controversial topic: Open or closed offices? What works best? Well, we think it’s time...
The New Opportunity of Opportunity Zones
By Matt Ertman & Mike Pruter, Partners Allen Matkins
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that went into effect this past February contains a new program called “opportunity zones,”...
Oakland 2.0
By John Cumbelich
Prior to World War II, Oakland was one of the major retailing markets in the West. In an era when the department store was the king of...
California Expedites Oakland A’s Stadium Development with AB 734
By R. Zachary Wasserman
AB 734 provides a specially speedy CEQA approach for approval of a new Oakland A’s ball park and associated development at Howard Terminal near Jack London...
Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, It Affects the Industry’s Owners
By Helen Moulis
As most of us know, we’ve entered a new era of tax rules with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017. The last...
McNellis: Mattress Firm’s Moral Bankruptcy
By John McNellis
Mattress Firm, the nation’s largest mattress retailer, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month. Why did it go bankrupt? Simple. The company had far more stores, more than...
