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The shopping mall’s savior is starting to eat itself

Restaurants, one of the supposed saviors of regional malls, have been hurt in the past 12 months by too much expansion and a slowdown in consumer spending. Stephen Wall’s restaurant

January 8, 2019

Neighbors rise against plan to replace Red Cottage Inn with bigger hotel

Owner wants to tear down small hotel for Hampton Inn with three times as many rooms in Menlo Park, but residents call it too massive. The owner of a Menlo Park

January 3, 2019

Oakland requires landlords to retrofit ‘soft-story’ buildings

Landlords have six years to retrofit the buildings, which are prone to substantial earthquake damage. To prevent hundreds of multi-story, wood-frame apartment buildings from collapsing as they did in the

January 3, 2019

San Francisco readies for convention boom as $500 million Moscone Center expansion opens

Nearly two years after it closed for a $550 million renovation, San Francisco’s larger Moscone Center reemerges on Jan. 4, aiming to take the city’s convention business into a new

January 3, 2019

How low-cost chains are changing the retail game

Dollar store chains are among America’s fastest-growing retailers, but their impact on the industry is coming under increased scrutiny. Nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance reports that dollar stores are more prevalent than

January 3, 2019

Stanford sues Santa Clara County over housing law

University claims it’s been unfairly targeted by ‘inclusionary housing’ ordinance. Stanford University on Wednesday filed two lawsuits against Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, charging county officials of unfairly and

December 27, 2018

Square takes over enormous Oakland building

Uptown Station, once meant to be Uber’s Oakland HQ, nets a new tech tenant. Not too long ago, the circa 1929 Beaux-Arts building in Oakland now known as Uptown Station

December 27, 2018

Demand for apartment rentals surges unexpectedly as home sales slump

Surging demand and strong occupancy in the nation’s apartment market is “surprising” experts who say the continued strength is “unexpected.” Just a year ago, as dozens of cranes swarmed over

December 27, 2018

San Jose moves toward ordinance limiting Section 8 discrimination

Landlords in San Jose would no longer be able to advertise that they don’t take rental vouchers. San Jose took a step toward making it harder for landlords to turn

December 18, 2018

As another San Francisco office tenant decamps for Oakland, will Salesforce take its space?

Another office tenant plans to move to Oakland from San Francisco, freeing up some space that Salesforce is reportedly looking to lease. The exodus of office tenants fleeing San Francisco

December 18, 2018

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The shopping mall’s savior is starting to eat itself

Neighbors rise against plan to replace Red Cottage Inn with bigger hotel

Oakland requires landlords to retrofit ‘soft-story’ buildings

San Francisco readies for convention boom as $500 million Moscone Center expansion opens

How low-cost chains are changing the retail game

Stanford sues Santa Clara County over housing law

Square takes over enormous Oakland building

Demand for apartment rentals surges unexpectedly as home sales slump

San Jose moves toward ordinance limiting Section 8 discrimination

As another San Francisco office tenant decamps for Oakland, will Salesforce take its space?

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