Plans For 162-Unit Pill Hill Development Dusted Off
Approved for development in 2007 but waylaid by the great recession and a parking lot since the former Courthouse Athletic Club Building on the site was hastily razed in 2009,…
Last-Minute Change For SF’s Olympic Bid: Oakland Stadium Pitched
With the U.S. Olympic Committee just hours away from an expected announcement as to which U.S. city they will back in a bid to host the 2024 Summer Games, and…
Development Could Transform Oakland’s Pill Hill And Auto Row
Plans to demolish the majority of the Oakland Auto Center at 3093 Broadway and build a seven-story development across the 3.5 acre Auto Row parcel have been filed with the…
Office Rents In S.F. Forecast To Climb, But Not As Fast As In Boston
With demand for office space in San Francisco at an all-time high and office rents having increased 15 percent over the past year and nearly doubling since the first quarter…
Two Large Tech Companies Circling Oakland’s Sears Building
Without naming names, two “large technology companies” are reportedly in discussions to lease the entire Sears Building in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood which the department store vacated in September. The 400,000-square-foot…
Some Relief For Renters In SF, Growing Pain(s) In The East Bay
While the average asking rent for a market-rate apartment in San Francisco has hit a record $3,400 a month, up 9.8 percent over the past year, the largest percentage increase…
New Hope For Oakland’s Ambitious Coliseum City Development
Set to expire yesterday after two years of effort, Oakland’s City Council has granted a 90-day contract extension to the group which has been trying to get the proposed $2…
A Tipping Point For Oakland’s Office Market?
Between 70 and 80 percent of the recent demand for office space across the Bay Area has been driven by tech companies, according to Cassidy Turley. In San Francisco, the…
Oakland’s Uptown Neighborhood Is Great, But It’s Not Number One
Oakland’s Uptown has landed on the American Planning Association’s list of “Great Neighborhoods” this year, a list which included San Francisco’s Chinatown in 2013. While Uptown appears atop the list…
Trulia Deems San Francisco Overvalued, San Jose And Oakland Too
Based on ratios of home prices, incomes and rents, San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland all made Trulia’s latest top-ten list of the most “overvalued” housing markets in the U.S.,…