Oakland
Performing Arts Group Nears Purchase of Oakland’s Historic Scottish Rite Center
Built in 1927 and reworked into Greek-influenced Art Deco style after lake-air damage in the 1930s, the century-old venue would keep a rare...
San Francisco Building Operations Drive $12.7BN Economic Engine at Nation’s Second-Highest Cost Per Foot
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International quantifies the Bay Area's building-operations economy, finding that San Francisco runs the costliest commercial space in...
Libertas Companies Acquires 253,000 SQFT 1333 Broadway Office Tower for $58.1MM in Oakland
A 10-story Oakland office tower has changed hands for roughly half what its previous owner paid six years ago, the latest sign that...
Port of Oakland’s $642MM Turning Basins Widening Clears Design Milestone, Eyes 2028 Construction Start
The federal government and the Port of Oakland have locked in a plan to engineer a $642 million widening of the harbor's two...
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...
San Francisco Bucks the Coastal Squeeze as New Apartments Add 35 SQFT
San Francisco stands out as one of the only major coastal markets where new apartments have grown larger over the past decade, a...
US Forest Service Backs California Mass Timber, Mills With $2.2MM Share of $105.5MM Wood Grants
The U.S. Forest Service has directed roughly $2.2 million of a $105.5 million national wood innovation grant round to seven California projects, funding...
Port of Oakland Holds Laden Cargo Flat Through July as Empty Boxes Drag Total Volume Lower
The Port of Oakland kept its loaded cargo volumes nearly level through the first seven months of 2026 and pushed exports slightly ahead...
Align and Albertsons Downsize Rockridge Senior Housing Towers to 372 Units, Add Grocery in Oakland
Align Real Estate and Albertsons have formally filed a scaled-back version of their twin-tower senior housing project at Oakland's Rockridge Trader Joe's site,...
Behring Plans 20,000 SQFT AI Data Center at Former Berkeley Lab Site in Oakland
A vacant supercomputer building that a national developer once eyed for a 39-story office tower before abandoning the plan is instead becoming ground...
Madison Park Doubles Down on Oakland Multifamily as AI Boom Widens the Rent Gap With San Francisco
Madison Park is preparing a concentrated wave of new investment across the East Bay, betting that San Francisco's AI hiring surge has already...
Black Cultural Zone Acquires Vacant East Oakland Lot for $10 in Alameda County’s First Chapter 8 Housing Deal in Nine Years
Alameda County transferred a long-abandoned, tax-defaulted parcel on MacArthur Boulevard to a Black-led nonprofit developer for a nominal $10, reviving a dormant state...
