McGrane Musings: Hub and Spoke and Why Every Employer Should be Focused on the...
By Eugene McGrane
As I often do when thinking about real estate and the economy, I found myself reflecting on The Power Broker by Robert Caro. In Caro’s masterwork on...
Reno Seeks to Purchase Motels as Affordable Housing Instead of Letting Developers Demolish Them
The mayor of Reno did little to stop the razing of motels that housed low-income residents or to replace lost units. Following a ProPublica investigation, that may change.
Anjeanette Damon,...
SB 743 and CEQA
New Ways To Analyze Transportation Impacts Under SB 743 and the California Environmental Quality Act
By Cecily Barclay
The traffic impacts of development projects have traditionally been evaluated in light of...
La Eace: San Francisco Housing Rents Climbing Faster Than Most Know
By Rob La Eace
As of late, it seems the only things hotter than our home sales market is our rental market—and of course our San Francisco Giants! Who would...
Senate Bill 330 Housing Crisis Act Explained
By Steven Vettel and Charles “CJ” Higley
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law several housing-related bills passed in the 2019-2020 state legislative session. At the start of the...
Opinion: Job Trends in Bay Area Will Hit Real Estate, the Economy, Municipal Budgets...
Wolf Richter
An ugly red flag for all of California goes up.
The labor force in California fell by 19,900 in June from May on a seasonally adjusted basis, the second...
Office Life Disrupted: A Suburban Developer Contemplates the Future
By Alex Mehran, Jr.
The fate of the office is more than academic for us. As the third-generation owners of Bishop Ranch, a ten million square foot suburban Bay Area development...
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...
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...
Opinion: Labor Tapers, Housing Booms
These 2 Forces Will Crush the San Francisco Housing Bubble
By Wolf Richter
Jobs, labor force are declining; housing construction in epic boom.
The San Francisco housing bubble – locally called “Housing Crisis” –...
