Industry Contributors & Editorial
UC Berkeley Case Shows Why Comprehensive Reform Badly Needed to End CEQA Abuse
By Chris Carr The California Supreme Court last week declined to stay a lower court order in a case involving a housing and...
Retail’s New COVID Rules
By John Cumbelich The Ides of March was celebrated in ancient Rome on March 15th each year, as the deadline for settling debts. As the commercial real...
When Students Become the Teachers: What Workplace Design Can Learn from Higher Education Facilities
By Sandi Rudy, RID, LEED ID+C, and James Foster, AIA The typical pre-pandemic office design won’t get a passing grade in the workplace...
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...
Report: Retail West Coast Year in Review & Look Ahead
This article was republished with explicit permission from Kidder Mathews and its author, and it originally appeared here. Demand Fuels Expansion in Brick...
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...
Tax Incentives for Commercial Property Owners and Builders
By James Su, Managing Director, Tax The COVID-19 pandemic continues to deliver unpredictable impacts on U.S. markets, commercial real estate included. Because of...
Top Tips for Commercial Real Estate Brokers Entering the Cannabis Market
By Bryan McLaren, Zoned Properties With the shift towards medical and adult-use cannabis legalization, more than half of the U.S. population now has...
Opinion: Corporate Real Estate Has Become a Black Hole That Devours Money. Time to Fix It.
Written by Gabe Burke. Edited by Sharon Simonson. Real estate portfolios must be restructured. To delay no longer makes sense. When the pandemic...
Biotech, Biopharma, and Medical Device Companies Are Booming in California and Beyond, Require Specialized Spaces
By Paul Ferro Commercial property owners are at a crossroads. With several companies decreasing their square footage by either migrating to remote working...
Opinion: Will the Recent Supreme Court Decision on Vaccination Requirements Impact Office Leasing?
By Vladimir Bosanac Say what you will about liberty in the United States, but as someone who is vaccinated, boosted and taking all...
Bay Area Real Estate in 2022: Here’s What’s in Store
By Josh Santos, Northern California Division President, Landsea Homes It is an understatement to say that the last two years have been unlike...