The San Francisco Chronicle’s Andrew Ross wrote a nice article this morning discussing Tishman Speyer’s planned development of Foundry III at 1st & Howard, and 222 Second Street at 2nd & Howard. Currently both locations are parking lots, and Tishman has now publicly stated that they will be starting construction ahead of a signed leased [...]
It has been a very busy month already, and I have been fortunate enough to be able to take the family to Southern California for a week. This almost always means that it is time to roll out a catch up blog post, bringing you the most relevant information from the past 9 days: San [...]
There has been some great reporting over the past two days regarding Salesforce pulling away from its planned development in Mission Bay by the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Business Times. Rumors are circulating of course regarding the reasons behind the pivot, but I will steer clear of that process and just direct [...]
I represent quite a few technology companies in San Francisco. Some are big, some are small, but all of them connect & network with each other at a variety of events held South of Market. This list is not intended to be an end all, it is simply a list of 5 events that I [...]
JK Dineen at the San Francisco Business Times released a smart article this past week that examines the currently entitled lots available for development in San Francisco. Although it is well know that the office market has spiked recently from a pricing perspective on both leasing and sales, we have not yet seen new development [...]
Met up with Mark Gilbreath and Doug Marinaro from LiquidSpace at MacWorld today. Mark is the Co-Founder & CEO, Doug is the Co-Founder & President/ COO. LiquidSpace is a mobile app that lets people who need to find flexible work/ meeting space connect with venues/ locations that want to share their offices or conference rooms. [...]
According to the San Francisco Business Times, StumbleUpon has extended its lease on three floors at 301 Brannan, while also taking an additional 25K square feet in the South of Market building. The property has recently been purchased by Kilroy, a group that has bought several buildings in San Francisco recently including 303 Second Street. [...]
The San Francisco Business Times reported today that LinkedIn has signed a lease to take three floors at One Montgomery Tower in San Francisco. The article mentions that the space being taken was formerly Schwab office space, and that the move represents a trend of technology companies taking space North of Market Street as the [...]
In a very well written article by J.K. Dineen of the San Francisco Business Times (with quoted information from the very smart research people at my firm, Jones Lang LaSalle), it is shown that the red hot South of Market neighborhood has a vacancy rate sitting at 3.3%. This number is the lowest since 1988, [...]
As was rumored, the PAC 12 has made it official and leased 70k square feet of office space at 370 Third Street in San Francisco. the San Francisco Business Times has the full details on this news in the article linked to below. I have toured four clients through this property in the last 12 [...]