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...
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...
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...
