student housing
San José Fights for Opportunity Zones 2.0 Tracts as State Backs 15 of 36 City Picks
San José officials lobbied Sacramento and Washington to secure 36 priority census tracts under the newly permanent federal Opportunity Zones 2.0 program, but...
UC Berkeley’s Building Wave: $550MM AI Hub Opens as 2,738 Student Beds Rise
With a $550 million, gift-funded computing and data science hub now open and two student housing towers totaling 2,738 beds under construction, UC...
As California Embraces Transit Upzoning, Austin’s 22-Year Density Test Offers a Blueprint and a Warning
A student-housing overlay that reshaped the blocks west of the University of Texas gives California developers and planners a rare, finished case study...
In the Fight to Build Housing Near Campus, the University Is the Obstacle
Austin's stalled push to add towers near the University of Texas, and California's drawn-out housing battles at Berkeley and Stanford, point to the...
The Underpriced Catalyst in Campus Real Estate Is a Train, From Austin’s Light Rail to Bay Area Transit
The catalyst reshaping land values around universities is not zoning but transit: Austin's 9.8-mile light-rail line will run past West Campus, and California's...
Why Institutional Capital Keeps Betting on Student Housing While the Bay Area Stays Underbuilt
Once a fragmented niche, purpose-built student housing has become an institutional asset class drawing billions from Blackstone, KKR and Greystar, and the Bay...
UC Berkeley and NASA Publish Final Environmental Review for 2.3MM SQFT Berkeley Space Center at Moffett Field
The final environmental review for the Berkeley Space Center reveals the project's maximum footprint has grown to 2.3 million square feet since its...
After the Student-Housing Towers, the Bay Area’s Next Campus Play Is Everything at Their Base
The next round of value creation in university districts is not more student beds but the grocery, retail and hotels that keep them...
Stanford Files Long-Awaited 1.8MM SQFT Growth Plan With Santa Clara County
Eighteen months of listening sessions and a 22-member advisory council produced a plan that trades some of 2016's academic square footage for a...
Gilbane Development and CBRE Investment Management Open 480-Bed Pique Student Housing Community Near UC Berkeley
Gilbane Development has opened Pique, a purpose-built student housing community a few blocks from the University of California, Berkeley campus, adding more than...
Cabrillo, UC Santa Cruz and Greystar Advance $181MM, 624-Bed Costa Vista Student Housing in Aptos
A first-in-California partnership between a community college and a University of California campus, the Costa Vista development in Aptos cleared a late-summer financing...
Valiance Capital, Canyon Partners Open 265-Bed The Valiant Student Housing Tower in Berkeley’s Southside
A joint venture of Canyon Partners Real Estate, The Martin Group and Berkeley-based Valiance Capital has completed The Valiant, an 88-foot student housing...
