McNellis on Governance: Rescue Our Horse
John McNellis
The annual meeting of America’s foremost real estate organization, the Urban Land Institute, took place last week in Los Angeles. Its mood was as somber as an Irish...
Opinion: Twitter’s Chilling Offer
By Wolf Richter
Some of the smartest money got out last year.
Twitter is shaking up San Francisco. It’s the city’s 10th largest employer, and second largest tech employer, after Salesforce....
Safety, Technology, and Learning Design: How Virtual Reality is Improving Safety
By Marc Kinsman and Will Adams
Virtual reality (VR) is a technology that has a wide appeal because of its capacity to immerse its users in a virtual world. The...
What’s the Value of a Conference Today?
Notes from the 2014 CREFC Conference
By Eric Von Berg
I try to take time to frequently attend commercial real estate conferences and events. Early in my career, in the world...
McNellis: The Post-Plague Office
Real Estate in the Plague Year
By John McNellis
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg said he believes that half of Facebook's employees will be working from home over the next 10 years....
Opinion: San Francisco Real Estate Market Finally Plateaued
Flat prices and stale inventory brought the fog to the city by the bay
By Jeffery Marino
San Francisco home sales declined for the eighth-consecutive month, falling 0.4 percent in August from a...
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...
McNellis: Your New Year’s Obituary
By John McNellis
If you haven't made a New Year's resolution yet, you might consider another way of possibly improving yourself. Rather than resolving to lose ten pounds, drink less...
McNellis: The Bears of Crowdfunding
By John McNellis
You don’t remember the name Timothy Treadwell, but you remember him. He was the free spirit who went to live among the grizzly bears in Alaska every...
Google: Planning Underway for Downtown West in San Jose
Google and our development partner Lendlease are excited to be working with the City of San José and community on a plan to transform Downtown West into a vibrant...