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AI Boom Pushes Bay Area Business AI Use to 31% as San Francisco Office Vacancy Falls
The San Francisco metro now posts the highest business AI-adoption rate of any large U.S. metro the Census Bureau tracks, and the same...
Lurie Declares San Francisco ‘Rent Emergency,’ Backs $30MM Package as AI Boom Drives Record Rents
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a rent emergency and threw his weight behind a roughly $30 million spending plan and six ordinances...
Bay Area Life Science Tops U.S. Funding at $5.6B Even as Lab Vacancy Hits Record 26%
The San Francisco Bay Area remained the country's top destination for life science venture capital in the first half of 2026, drawing $5.6...
Why Institutional Capital Keeps Betting on Student Housing While the Bay Area Stays Underbuilt
Once a fragmented niche, purpose-built student housing has become an institutional asset class drawing billions from Blackstone, KKR and Greystar, and the Bay...
San Jose Retail Vacancy Set to Fall to 4.4% as Experiential Tenants Fuel Silicon Valley Leasing
Marcus & Millichap's Q3 2026 San Jose retail report finds a market tightening on the strength of pickleball courts, fitness operators and a...
Silicon Valley Data Centers Sit Dark Until 2028 as U.S. Buildout Nears $15.1T
Nearly 100 megawatts of finished Silicon Valley data center capacity cannot be energized until Silicon Valley Power completes a $450 million system upgrade...
After the Student-Housing Towers, the Bay Area’s Next Campus Play Is Everything at Their Base
The next round of value creation in university districts is not more student beds but the grocery, retail and hotels that keep them...
As Cap-Rate Compression Ends, Schnitzer Says Operators Will Win Industrial’s Next Cycle
In a wide-ranging podcast interview, longtime Oregon industrial owner Jordan Schnitzer argued that the era of cheap debt and falling cap rates that...
California, Texas and Washington Together Drive More Than 26% of U.S. GDP
New figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show that the three states anchoring The Registry's coverage — California, Texas and Washington...
OpenAI Scouts Multiple Silicon Valley Campuses as AI Firms Push South of Their San Francisco Base
As it hunts for room to grow, OpenAI has toured a cluster of the region's biggest available office campuses—among them Mountain View's The...
Newsom Weighs Bill Licensing the Cash-Advance and Factoring Firms Bankrolling Bay Area Small Businesses
California lawmakers have handed Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that would make the state the first in the country to require merchant cash...
California Falls to Third in Battery Storage as Siting Fights Reroute Bay Area Projects
California installed 3.6 gigawatt-hours of battery storage in the second quarter and finished behind Arizona and Texas in the largest quarter the national...
