Bay Area
California Clinches Nation’s No. 2 GDP Growth at 3.7% in First Quarter
California’s economy grew at a 3.7 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2026, the second-fastest pace in the country, as a...
Gensler’s City Pulse 2026 Splits the Bay Area: San Francisco Lands Top-Tier Stickiness as San Jose Trails
The Bay Area’s two largest downtowns diverged sharply in Gensler’s largest-ever global study of urban experience, with San Francisco ranking among the nation’s...
Etched AI Lands 80,000 SQFT Milpitas R&D Lease Amid AI Chip Demand
Etched AI’s 80,000-square-foot Milpitas R&D lease drops into a Silicon Valley industrial market where AI hardware companies are chasing 12 million square feet...
San Francisco Commission Advances Mayor Lurie’s $28.5MM OpenGov Permitting Deal Despite Favoritism Claims
San Francisco’s Civil Service Commission cleared Mayor Daniel Lurie’s no-bid OpenGov contract on a 4-1 vote, unblocking a $28.5 million permitting overhaul that...
West Marine to Shutter Five California Stores in Chapter 11 Restructuring, Cutting Home-State Footprint to 12
West Marine, the boating-supply retailer born in California nearly six decades ago, will close five of its 17 stores in the state as...
Fortinet Pays $15MM for Last Parcels Across from Sunnyvale HQ
With a $15 million cash purchase of the two Commercial Street parcels that Olander Co. had held as the last gap in Fortinet’s...
San José Unified School District to Explore Acquisition of All 337-Unit Tower for Employee Housing
Facing a teacher retention crisis that ground-up development alone can’t solve fast enough, San José Unified has retained CBRE to evaluate a bulk...
Lane Partners Files Updated Parkline Master Plan at Former SRI Campus in Menlo Park, Nearly Tripling Housing Acreage
In a sweeping land use reversal driven by post-pandemic office market softness, Lane Partners has refiled its Parkline Master Plan for SRI International’s...
Holland Partner Group Acquires 218-Unit Meridian at Midtown in San Jose from Essex Property Trust for $105.3MM
Holland Partner Group’s acquisition of Meridian at Midtown from Essex Property Trust captures the peculiar math of Bay Area multifamily in 2026 —...
Heitman Lists 887,130 SQFT Pacific Commons Open-Air Retail Center for Sale in Fremont
Pacific Commons, the dominant open-air retail destination in Fremont anchored by Costco, Lowe’s, and a forthcoming 100,000-square-foot H Mart flagship, has been brought...
16-Unit 225 Catalpa Apartments in San Mateo Trades to Tech Sector Investor for $7.75MM
A 16-unit apartment community blocks from Downtown San Mateo has traded for $7.75 million, with a technology sector buyer deploying capital into what...
Port of Oakland Posts Second Straight Month of Cargo Growth, Handling 190,958 TEUs in May
The Port of Oakland strung together back-to-back months of year-over-year volume gains in May 2026, lifted by stronger imports, resilient farm exports and...
