Google Designs: Lease and Buy vs. Build
By Neil Gonzales By far, Google Inc. is Mountain View’s biggest employer with about 12,000 workers. A distant second is El Camino Hospital...
JLL: Top 5 Tech Tenants in San Francisco 2010 and 2013
The technology sector has flourished in San Francisco, as numerous tech companies continue to take down office space throughout the city and expand...
Google’s George Salah to Become CEO at Smart Grid Startup
By Sharon Simonson George Salah, long-time Google Inc. director of facilities, is leaving the company to become the chief executive of Apparent Inc.,...
Caltrain Upgrades Should Electrify Property Markets As Well As Trains
By Sharon Simonson The value premium for real estate adjacent to Caltrain stations, which has grown noticeably during the current property recovery, is likely...
What Value A Good Name? A Lot
By Jon Peterson A Seattle-based real estate investment firm has learned what every Silicon Valley landlord already knows: Having names like Google Inc. and...
McNellis on Developers and Contractors: General Relativity
December 13, 2011 By John McNellis With major construction about to blossom all over the Bay Area—campuses for Salesforce, Google and Apple, the...
