Sale of Uber’s Uptown Station Has Closed, Opening Late 2018
The sale of the waylaid Uptown Station development at 1945 Broadway in Uptown Oakland, which has been under construction since 2015 when Uber purchased the former Sears building for $123.5…
Oakland A’s Relegate New Ballpark Site to the Disabled List
Two weeks ago the Peralta Community College District’s Board of Trustees directed the college district’s Chancellor to immediately discontinue talks with the Oakland Athletics who were positioning to acquire the…
Take Three for an East Bay Infill Project
With false starts in both 1991 and 2002, at which points 34-unit and 32-unit buildings had been approved and permitted, and site prep had actually gotten underway but was subsequently…
Bay Area Home Sales Hold Despite Fires and SF’s Slip
Despite the marked impact of the recent wild fires in Sonoma and Napa counties, which resulted in an average 18.7 percent drop in sales activity versus the same time last…
Oakland A’s Ballpark Plan Could Be DOA Based on Board Vote
With representatives of the student and faculty associations of Laney College having recently voted against allowing the Oakland Athletics to acquire the 13-acre parcel of community college-owned land at 333…
Building Up Berkeley: Refined Designs for Seven-Story Development
Plans to level the 24 Hour Fitness at 2072 Addison Street, in Downtown Berkeley, and develop a new seven-story building upon its site are slated be approved by the city…
San Francisco and Bay Area Employment Slip from Record Highs
Having hit a downwardly revised record of 555,000 in September, the number of people living in the city of San Francisco with a job slipped by 1,800 in October to…
Expected Timing for a Modular Oakland Tower and Townhomes
The downsized plans for a modular 29-story tower to rise up to 350 feet in height on the corner of Franklin and 21st Street in Uptown Oakland have just received…
Building Up Berkeley: Five Steel-Skinned Stories as Proposed
Plans to level the former Northwest Berkeley service station turned abandoned tax office at 1740 San Pablo Avenue are in the works. And as proposed, a five-story building with 48…
Bay Area Home Sales Take a Hit, Down over 30 Percent in SF
The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area in September dropped an above average 13.6 percent from August (8,490) to September (7,338) and…