McNellis: Retail’s Existential Threat is Private Equity
By John McNellis
A “bust out” is a fraud tactic, commonly used in the organized crime world, wherein a business’ assets and lines of credit...
McNellis: Whole Foods’ Existential Threat?
“Amazon's plunge into the $800 billion US grocery industry posed an existential threat to rivals.” CNN August 2018
By John McNellis
Together, Lyft’s Employees Could Buy Every Single Home for Sale in San Francisco With...
Published with explicit permission from Redfin. The original article can be found here: https://www.redfin.com/blog/lyft-ipo-san-francisco-real-estate/
By Dana Olsen
San Francisco already has...
Lessons From Prop-10: California, Your Landlord is Not the Problem
By Brook Turner, Coalition for Better Housing
Prop 10, the measure aimed to reverse California’s approach to rent control, was voted down by an...
McNellis: Death by Power Point
By John McNellis
With speaking season just around the corner, with the conferences, conventions and even lowly breakfast panels backing up like rusting jets...
The “No Wall on the Waterfront” Campaign — CalSTRS’ Final Chapter
By Glenn Zwang and James Wright
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In 2005, CalSTRS (headed by Mike DiRe, STRS’ Sacramento based Director of Real Estate...
McNellis: WeWorking a New Angle
By John McNellis
With major announcements almost daily, WeWork is stealing so many headlines it's annoying the president. The latest is its name-change to WeCompany, the old name being simply...
Retail Reinvented
By John Cumbelich
The San Francisco Bay Area is now home to not one but two of the most evolutionary new projects in the world of commercial real estate. The...
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...
