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• May 14, 2002 - No Profit from Nonprofits
5/14/02
The Oakland City Council stalled the dreams of one nonprofit by selling its building to pay off the organization's debt to the city, but it kept alive the dreams of a dozen or so others by agreeing to sell the project they oc...
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• May 13, 2002 - Small is Bountiful in Sonoma County
5/13/02
While the bigger Bay Area contractors may be suffering a shortage of work, smaller ones appear to be faring generally well as the focus of commercial development shifts to smaller projects and remodels. For example, two small...
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• May 10, 2002 - Mint Condition
5/10/02
The San Francisco commercial real estate market may be in shambles, but that didn't deter 12 competitors from submitting proposals for development of the historic U.S. Mint site at 5th and Mission streets. Among the bidders a...
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• May 9, 2002 - Staying Alive -- the NoCal Real Estate Version
5/09/02
Though the deals are typically small, sales of Bay Area industrial buildings appear to be holding steady despite the downturn in the commercial real estate market.
In San Francisco, a 15k sf single-story industrial building...
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• May 8, 2002 - Kaiser Permanente Tries to Keep Construction Industry Healthy
5/08/02
A new report from the Oakland office of BT Commercial reveals construction activity at a near standstill in the East Bay. Though a few projects are on their way to completion, no new commercial projects of any size are schedu...
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• May 7, 2002 - Guaranteed Delivery of New Distribution Building in San Francisco
5/07/02
San Francisco will soon get a new Federal Express distribution center, one of several state-of-the-art facilities the delivery company is building across the nation. In what appears to be one of the synthetic lease transactio...
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• May 6, 2002 - Going-Out-of-Business Parks?
5/06/02
An oversupply of space and shortage of prospective tenants have led developers to delay or scrap two large Bay Area projects. In Cotati, Monahan Pacific Corp has postponed construction of the $54 mil South Sonoma Business Par...
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• May 3, 2002 - Sweet Deal in the East Bay
5/03/02
Greig Lagomarsino and Rick Keely of Colliers International brokered a six-year lease for 60k sf at Winton Industrial Center in Hayward on behalf of Boston Properties, the landlord. The lease to Sweet Paper Sales Corp of Hiale...
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• May 2, 2002 - Shoring Things Up in Redwood City
5/02/02
In a positive sign for the market overall, Pacific Shores, a $500 mil, 10-building project on the bay in Redwood City that went from almost fully pre-leased to barely 40% full by completion, is beginning to fill again. A sign...
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• Investors Find No Skeletons in Closet at Albany Mortuary Purchase
5/01/02
The creator of the BowFlex exercise machine is taking fitness to a new extreme. He is now closing down funeral homes. Or, at least one of them.
East Bay entrepreneur and inventor Tessema Dosho Shifferaw, whose best-selling p...
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• May 1, 2002 - Bedford Posts Increase
5/01/02
Lafayette-based Bedford Property Investors Inc reported a modest increase in rental revenue and in new leases for the quarter ended March 31. The REIT reported rents of $24.4 mil, compared to $24 mil for the corresponding per...
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• NoCal Investment Activity is all Over the Map
4/30/02
Bay Area industrial pricing appears to be all over the board, with disparities in both location and quality leading to recent sales ranging from $55/sf to $247/sf. At the top of the line, Cascade Range Holdings LLC paid $2.24...
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• April 29, 2002 - $600K Profit in 24 Hours
4/29/02
A San Francisco investor made a quick $600k profit from the purchase and resale of a 7-story, 17.5k sf office building at 701 Sutter St. Kevin Lee bought the 92-year-old property for $3.1 mil, or $177/sf, from Jian Commerce ...
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• Tishman Speyer is Looking to Fill'er Up With Residential Tenants
4/26/02
The top half of an empty office tower in San Francisco's Financial District may be converted to residential space. With analysts predicting it could take as long as 10 years to fill the city's vacant office space, Tishman Spe...
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• April 25, 2002 - Shorenstein's Short Stories
4/25/02
There was more tension than there were tenants for the April 17 official opening of 555 City Center, the first privately funded high-rise in Oakland in more than a decade. With only one tenant in place, the 21-story tower is ...
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• April 23, 2002 - Three Deals Show Life Remains in Silicon Valley
4/23/02
As several recent deals demonstrate, the tech market may have slowed but it hasn't died in Silicon Valley. MKS Instruments Inc, Philips Semiconductors and Testmetrix all signed significant leases recently for entry or expansi...
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• April 22, 2002 - Grubb Restructures Bay Area Offices
4/22/02
In response to the current downturn, Grubb & Ellis has restructured its Bay Area operations. The national brokerage has closed its San Mateo office and downsized in Oakland, shifting two brokers from the former and three from...
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• Pioneer Leads Recent Leasing Effort in Contra Costa County
4/19/02
Colliers International recently brokered three office leases at 700 Ygnacio Valley Rd. in Walnut Creek, bringing the building to full occupancy (though a 1.1k sf space is available for sublease at $2.75/sf a month). The 16-ye...
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• April 18, 2002 - SOLA Sees Way Clear to Sell
4/18/02
An investment group from Santa Rosa has purchased a 148k sf office/R&D building in Petaluma from optics maker SOLA International for conversion into a business park. The buyer, Kland LLC, paid a reported $18 mil for the 14-ac...
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• A Little Applied Photon Technology Can Really Help a Building
4/17/02
Colliers International recently brokered a five-year, $374k sf lease to Applied Photon Technology. The company leased 8.1k sf square feet ($0.77/sf/mo) at 3526 Investment Blvd in Hayward. The property is in Gateway Industrial...
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