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California Adds 39,400 Jobs in August as Unemployment Holds at 5.1%
The state's payroll expansion in August accounted for more than a quarter of all U.S. job growth, even as Professional and Business Services...
San Francisco Greenlights $8.5MM SoMa Streetscape, Turning Minna and Natoma Alleys Into Art Corridor
The San Francisco Arts Commission has approved final designs for the roughly $8.5 million Minna Natoma streetscape overhaul, clearing five artists to transform...
As AI Rebuilds the Physical World, San Francisco’s Real Estate Braces for a Machine-First Era
A new Goldman Sachs Global Institute essay contends the built environment is being redesigned for machines rather than people, and San Francisco —...
The Underpriced Catalyst in Campus Real Estate Is a Train, From Austin’s Light Rail to Bay Area Transit
The catalyst reshaping land values around universities is not zoning but transit: Austin's 9.8-mile light-rail line will run past West Campus, and California's...
Riverbank Freezes Data Center Rush With 45-Day Moratorium as Aemetis Pitches Clean-Energy Project on Former Army Munitions Site
Riverbank paused a sudden wave of data center interest with a temporary building freeze, buying time to write rules before committing land at...
UCLA Warns Bay Area Hyperscalers’ Data-Center Debt Carries Recession Risk
A September 2026 UCLA Economic Letter warns that the fast-growing debt financing the AI data-center boom, much of it carried by Bay Area...
California’s 53 Data Centers Anchor the AI Economy, but the State Holds Just 0.6% of the Nation’s Planned Capacity
California operates more data centers than all but a handful of states, yet a new national tally shows its post-2026 construction pipeline amounts...
VTS Lifts 2026 San Francisco Office Leasing Forecast 13% to 14.5MM SQFT as AI Demand Converts to Signed Leases
Sustained artificial intelligence demand is converting into signed office leases in San Francisco faster than VTS expected, pushing the firm to raise its...
San Francisco Building Operations Drive $12.7BN Economic Engine at Nation’s Second-Highest Cost Per Foot
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International quantifies the Bay Area's building-operations economy, finding that San Francisco runs the costliest commercial space in...
Oakland Downtown Development Corp. Launches With $2MM, Setting Up Coordination With Benefit Districts
The Oakland Downtown Development Corp. debuted Thursday with $2 million in private backing and an agenda of lighting, safety and street programming that...
Economist Ken Rosen: The Bay Area’s Cheap-Leverage Era Is Over, and Cap Rates Must Rise
Speaking on CBRE's podcast The Weekly Take, veteran economist Ken Rosen said the end of a 17-year run of cheap money will force...
The First Footprints in the Snow
AI's hit to jobs looks like a rounding error—until you see who's in the oven: gutted call centers and vanishing entry-level work. Narrow...
