Changing Your Workplace?

Make It Work with a Change Management Plan By Robin Weckesser Change management isn’t new, but today’s office dynamics are. To drive innovation and attract and retain top talent, companies are...
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Reviving Downtown: Strategies to Enhance Conversion Projects

By Janice Li As the conversation around what to do with empty office space continues, how to actually accomplish this goal is being examined. Repurposing existing office buildings as housing...

McNellis: Partying Like It’s 1999

By John McNellis Instacart, a San Francisco start-up, announced it had received $8.5 million in institutional funding last week. The company is a same-day home-delivery service for groceries. Given that...

NAIOP Opposes California Senate Bill 939

Commercial Real Estate Development Association Warns Proposed Legislation Would Exacerbate State’s Financial Crisis NAIOP, a premier commercial real estate development and owners association has announced its opposition to California Senate Bill 939. SB...
McNellis Partners

McNellis: Decked by City Hall?

Making it in Real Estate (Part Ten): Decked by City Hall? By John McNellis "If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, take their money and then...
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McNellis: Sharing Time in Hell

By John McNellis You can be in real estate and still possibly do some good in the world. The easy way is to build low-income housing or rehab blighted neighborhoods....

Protesting Google’s Buses is Insane

It's time for Google to fight back by funding urban housing...in downtown San Jose! By Eric Von Berg The well-publicized media events where “activists” block and board Google buses in San...

Dealing With Dirty Dirt

By Marv Pearlstein When developers and their investors contemplate acquiring a site that is compromised with environmental contamination, there are important guidelines they would do well to follow in order...

McNellis: Sex, Lies and Off-Market Deals

By John McNellis Jesus spent 40 days in the desert, eating nothing and resisting the devil’s temptations. Along a similar, if less biblical parallel, the Internal Revenue Service permits one 45...
John McNellis, McNellis Partners, Bay Area real estate, real estate development, commercial real estate

McNellis on Authoring His Book

Real Estate Entrepreneur, Founder and Author of "MAKING IT IN REAL ESTATE: Starting as a Developer" John McNellis is the founder of McNellis Partners, which specializes in developing supermarket-anchored shopping...

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