San Francisco officials approve new hotel in vote of confidence for hard-hit tourism sector
Project comes as some anticipate full recovery for economy tied to visitors
San Francisco is still a long way from its freewheeling pre-pandemic boom times of record tourism and booked hotels, but city officials aren't wasting time acting on the city's nas...
Bridge Housing launches West Coast affordable housing equity fund
Developer joins US apartment investment wave
Residential developer Bridge Housing has launched its first private equity fund for affordable housing on the West Coast, a region that includes some of the priciest housing market...
Global AI hardware firm scoops up Silicon Valley office building
Super Micro Computer continues regional expansion
A global tech company that makes hardware to power artificial intelligence continues to expand its reach in Silicon Valley with the purchase of a building in San Jose.
Global architecture firm expands in Bay Area
10 Design hires Angela Wu in San Francisco and new CEO in London
Architecture firm 10 Design has made several new key senior hires, including appointing a new CEO and a prominent San Francisco architect to oversee its Bay Area practice.
Investor scoops up apartment building near UC Berkeley as Bay Area rents climb
Riaz Capital invests in ‘urban workforce housing’ for middle-income professionals
A 99-unit apartment building in downtown Berkeley that’s about half a mile from the University of California campus has sold to a local real estate firm.
Amoeba Music drums up plan to add student housing to iconic Berkeley store
Record company pairs with California developer for apartment plans
An iconic California record store chain that managed to weather the music industry’s transformation from vinyl to CDs to digital streaming now aims to survive the state’s ongoing p...
How this firm turns small-business owners into commercial property landlords
Barbara Morrison retires after 44 years heading the nonprofit TMC Financing
As an intern in the late 1970s for then-San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein's Office of Economic Development, Barbara Morrison was tapped to implement a federal loan program to he...
German robotics startup opens US headquarters in San Francisco
RobCo leases 3,000 square feet in city's Mission District
A German startup that makes modular industrial robot arms that can be used by small-scale manufacturers has picked San Francisco for its United States headquarters.
Nvidia extends real estate shopping spree near Silicon Valley headquarters
Chipmaking giant is gobbling up buildings even as analysts say growth might be slowing
Artificial intelligence chipmaking giant Nvidia has finalized the purchase of a fourth building that's part of an office park it agreed to buy last year across the street from the ...
From rival to owner: Barnes & Noble buys the Bay Area’s oldest independent bookstore
Nation’s largest bookseller rescues Books Inc. in $3.25 million deal
Books Inc. weathered the Civil War and both World Wars, the Great Depression and the rise of the internet and Amazon.com. But the chain — one of the nation’s oldest — said earlier ...
New owners of GoPro’s Silicon Valley office campus set sight on residential future
Harvest, Stockbridge tackle latest strategy to deal with oversupply of US office space
The sprawling Silicon Valley business park that’s home to wearable camera company GoPro is set to be turned into single-family homes, as real estate investors strategize how to con...
One of America’s oldest shopping malls starts transformation into mixed-use
Near San Francisco, 1950s-era Westlake Mall to add 214 market-rate apartments
The Westlake Shopping Center, one of America’s first malls, is being turned into a mixed-use development with more than 200 homes.
InfinitSpace hires head of real estate to oversee North American coworking expansion
Firm brings on Andrea Pirrotti-Dranchak as it prepares to launch in four cities
European flexible workplace provider infinitSpace has hired an American executive to oversee its imminent expansion to North America.
San Francisco sees third office sale this year above $100 million
Deal volume is surpassing prior years as owners signal confidence in city's recovery
San Francisco has counted its third office sale this year above $100 million, signaling investor confidence in a real estate rebound for the city after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Investors scoop up historic office building in downtown San Francisco
TMG and Bridges Capital acquire property via a deed in lieu of foreclosure
A historic office building constructed just after the 1906 earthquake leveled most of San Francisco has emerged from the city's most recent crisis with a new owner, as faith builds...
Former Rolling Stone building in San Francisco’s AI hub seeks office tenants
Two floors of magazine's one-time home hit leasing market in SoMa district
In the late 1970s, Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner packed up and moved the magazine's headquarters to New York, dismissing its former hometown of San Francisco as a “pro...
Silicon Valley complex sells in region's biggest apartment deal in seven years
Buyers of the 948-unit Park Kiely in San Jose benefit from state tax exemption
A sprawling Silicon Valley apartment complex with more than 900 below-market-rate homes in one of the least affordable regions of the United States has sold for $370 million in the...
Apartment property manager Sentral hires new COO
San Francisco real estate executive Billie Hazley to optimize the company’s ‘flexible living’ business model
Property management company Sentral, which oversees high-end apartment buildings around the country, has appointed San Francisco real estate executive Billie Hazley to serve as the...
Nvidia expects global AI infrastructure spending to approach $4 trillion by end of decade
Chipmaking giant's revenue growth slows even as demand for the technology rises
Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia expects the AI boom to keep gaining steam in coming years, estimating that global AI infrastructure spending on real estate and other suppo...
Shorenstein buys San Francisco Bay Area office and retail complex in big-ticket deal
Fully leased Park Place at Bay Meadows is part of growing San Mateo tech hub
A mixed-use office and retail complex within the redeveloped Bay Meadows racetrack site south of San Francisco has sold for $175 million, in the latest example of how the Bay Area’...