Revitalizing Downtown San José: Design’s Evolution and Impact
By Kevin Schaeffer
Downtown San José is well positioned to become the next urban destination. An expanding job market, investment in public transit and more affordable real estate than other parts...
KT Urban Plans Aviato Residential Project in San Jose
By Michele Chandler
The Aviato project, an 18-story building containing residential units and retail space, has been proposed for 199 Bassett St. in downtown San Jose, just east of the Guadalupe...
Lane Partners’ Oakland Towers Project for 344 Units Advances
By Michele Chandler
A proposal by developer Lane Partners Inc. to transform two nearly empty plots of downtown Oakland land into two new residential towers was recently approved by Oakland...
2100 Telegraph in Oakland at Crucial Intersection—Office or Residential?
By Michele Chandler
New offices, more residential units—or some of both?
That’s the question before Oakland officials who are considering the best way to move forward with a potential development at...
San Francisco Developer oWow Plans $40MM Apartment Project at 2400 Filbert in Oakland
By Jon Peterson
San Francisco-based developer oWow is planning to kick off a $40 million, 122-unit apartment project in Oakland located at 2400 Filbert Street, according to sources familiar with the...
Strada Buys Redwood City Waterfront Development Site for $20.5MM
(EDITOR'S NOTE: According to public documents, the sale closed at the end of June 2018 for $20.5 million. The buyer was Strada Investment Group, which will further pursue the...
Facebook Advances its Plans for 1,500 Housing Units in Menlo Park
By Michele Chandler
Talk about the consummate employee benefit: Menlo Park-based Facebook is closer to offering housing, as the social networking company’s workforce in Silicon Valley grows.
Facebook, which started the...
McNellis: Housing Crisis Band-Aids
By John McNellis
Governor Jerry Brown just signed fifteen affordable-housing bills into law. A few might do a little good. Two senate bills will raise a bit of money. Senate...
McNellis: California’s Housing Crisis is a High Class Problem
By John McNellis
There are problems and then there are high-class problems. Being unemployed is a problem. Getting hit with a huge tax bill is a high-class problem. Not qualifying...
Concord’s Promises
By Vladimir Bosanac
The fortunes and associated misfortunes of a robust Bay Area economy have by now spread pretty evenly across the region. A place where that is perhaps most...
