Applying Placemaking Principles to Build a Better Workplace
By Evelyn Lee
The notion of placemaking was born in the 1960s through the aspirational ideas of writers like Jane Jacobs, who believed that the design of cities should focus...
Online Dating
By John Cumbelich
The real estate industry’s version of online dating can be found in places with names like LoopNet, Crexi, Commercial Search, CoStar and others. These sites are built...
McNellis: Many Happier Returns
Solving E-Commerce’s Challenge to Traditional Retail Comes in Small Packages
By John McNellis
Before the Wall Street Journal pontificates again about retail’s demise, about all those tumbling bricks, it might do...
As Apple Continues Expansion, a Look Back Provides Glimpses into Future Alternative Workplace Solutions
By Robin Weckesser
Yes, the spaceship landed, and Apple Computer is settling into its new Cupertino headquarters, Apple Park, a 2.8 million-square-foot campus that cost an estimated $5 billion and...
Construction Tops $1B at Facebook’s West Campus
Republished with explicit permission from BuildZoom. The original post appeared here: https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/facebook-west-campus-1b
May 16, 2018 By Kelsey Graeber
Since the grand opening of the Gehry-designed building named ‘MPK 20’ and de...
McNellis: Does WeWork at All?
Company discloses $1 billion losses in bond offering
By John McNellis
Wall Street’s biggest houses just hawked $702 million in junk bonds for WeWork. The junk pays 7.875 percent interest and...
2018 Omnibus Bill and its Effects on the EPA Brownfield Program
By Holly Neber
In March of 2018, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, also known as the 2018 Omnibus Bill.
The bill is an amalgamation of multiple complex funding...
Affordable Housing: Death by Entitlement
By W. Charles Perry
“Affordable Housing” has now joined the ranks of “negative income” and “unbiased opinion” as a world-class oxymoron in the California vernacular. In 2016, our fearless leaders...
McNellis: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
By John McNellis
If you are an entrepreneur, you are an optimist. You have to be. And, Pollyanna aside, it is no simple trick remaining optimistic, and it grows harder...
Time for a Coordinated Bay Area Displacement Policy
By Eric Von Berg
“Silicon Valley is over” “In the last three months of 2017, San Francisco lost more resident to outward migration than any other city in the county”...
