San Francisco
Mission Bay Gains Police HQs; Palo Alto Street Named Most Expensive for Office
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
The city is on its way to getting its first Mission Bay-located civic building. Groundbreaking has recently taken place on a new headquarters for the San Francisco Police Department, which will also house neighborhood police and […]
Construction Kits Go Green, Jobs Go Down in the Bay Area
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
 Amid plans of overhauling the entire building industry and impressive attempts at sustainable and energy-efficient structures, some projects seem to prosper more than others. One such endeavor is Project Frog, a San Francisco-based building business. The […]
Hotel Market to Rise During Coming Years
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
The city has been landing decent punches with its real estate deals and projects these past few months, but it might have missed out on a potentially rewarding trend. Bloomberg‘s recent overview of the area found […]
California Cities Court NFL Teams with Stadium Plans
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
As National Football League teams get ready to kick off the 2011 season, competition of a different sort is heating up in California. No fewer than four cities in the Golden State have plans in the pipeline for […]
Apple Unveils New HQ plan; High Stakes on High-Speed Rail
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
Apple is taking its gadget design into the real estate world–at least, that’s what the plan for their new Cupertino campus looks like. The new state-of-the-art structure, designed by British architect Norman Foster, will emulate everything […]
Google Development Ambitions Strain Relationship with Mountain View
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
Google has brought many good things to its hometown of Mountain View. But the Bay Area might have had enough. Google was highly criticized by local officials for its plans to build several bridges over a creek that […]
Swift Realty Buys 1 Million SF Bank of America Complex in Concord
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
In one of the area’s largest local office trades of recent years, Bank of America’s 1.1 million-square-foot complex in Downtown Concord has come under the ownership of Swift Realty Partners, the Contra Costa Times reported. Clocking in […]
Proposed Developments Headline Bay Area Real Estate
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
An ongoing dispute between the city of San Francisco and the California Pacific Medical Center regarding $2 billion in upcoming healthcare-sector projects is nearing its apex, the San Francisco Business Times reports. The two proposals are […]
49ers, Folsom Street Development Opportunities Move Forward
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
The city of San Francisco has actively rekindled its search for an appropriate developer for a housing project in the vicinity of Transbay Terminal. The San Francisco Business Times reports that the city’s Redevelopment Agency is […]
Subway Project Polarizes Community as Massive Funding is Sought from Government
By Alex Girda, Associate Editor
The city is set to start on its very own Subway. And this bit of news is definitely not about sandwiches. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency awarded a substantial $233.6 million to American-Italian joint venture […]