Affordable Housing for Veterans Debuts on VA Campus in Menlo Park
By Nancy Amdur
A grand opening will be held Feb. 18 at the Core Affordable Housing recently completed 60-unit residential development on the Menlo Park campus of the Veterans Affairs...
Central SoMa Redevelopment a Waiting Game as City Planning is Delayed
By Dan Smith
Representatives of four firms expected to ignite San Francisco's next hotspot for development gathered last month to talk about taking advantage of loosened height and density restrictions...
Bay Development Proposes 16-Story Mixed-Use Project for Downtown Oakland
By Nancy Amdur
San Francisco-based Bay Development is looking to add a mixed-use high-rise containing more than 125 residential units to downtown Oakland.
Oakland’s Planning Commission on Feb. 3 will discuss...
“Renaissance” in San Leandro’s Downtown as Improvements in BART, Tech Infrastructure and Land Availability...
By Jessica Zimmer
Change is coming to San Leandro this summer with the August 2016 opening of OSIsoft’s new 135,000 square foot headquarters and an 800-space parking structure at the...
Berkeley’s Rosen Says Bay Area CRE Market Remains Rosy Despite Rocky Start
By Robert Carlsen
Though 2016 got off to a rocky start economically in the U.S. thanks to the meltdown in China, financial markets are quite optimistic about the rest of...
BART Mulls Highrise Project near Lake Merritt Station as Other Developers Move Forward
By Robert Carlsen
While BART continues pre-planning efforts for a residential or office high-rise adjacent to its Lake Merritt station in Oakland, several other projects within the surrounding Lake Merritt...
VTA Launches Innovative, Flexible Bus System in Silicon Valley
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority launched an experimental on-demand public transportation program in early January in an effort to provide additional resources and ways for its customers to...
Expanded Stockton Avenue Mixed-Use Project Heads to San Jose City Council for Vote
By Dan Smith
A developer quadrupled the commercial space in a mixed use project at parcels at 120 and 138 Stockton Avenue that went before the San Jose Planning Commission...
Oakland Proposed Developer Fees Summarized
By Robert Selna
Unlike most large Bay Area cities, Oakland has not charged development impact fees to pay for affordable housing, but that is likely to change soon. The ramifications...
Two Tales of Revival
Hayes Valley and Jack London Square are two examples where we largely got it right.
THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE ‘Q’ – THE REGISTRY’S PRINT PUBLICATION – IN OCTOBER 2015
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