Our city is under attack by a new radicalism, and it’s not the free-loving kind of the past. It’s a well-funded and dangerous “my way or the highway” rhetoric that slams any attempt at smart neighborhood planning as “anti-housing.” Last summer, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin partnered with the mayor to upzone the entire […]
Office vacancies in San Francisco reached an all-time high in the first quarter of 2024, but there are signs the market has reached a turning point, according to preliminary data released by real estate firm CBRE. The vacancy rate reached 36.6% in the first three months of 2024, up 1% from the final quarter of […]
A 435,000-square-foot office building vacated by Meta in Downtown San Francisco is filling up. Zendesk, a locally based customer service software firm, is poised to sublease more than 40,000 square feet at the 55-story tower at 181 Fremont Street in SoMa’s Transbay District, the San Francisco Business Times reported, citing unidentified sources. The pending sublease […]
The CEO of Presidio Bay Ventures bought a San Francisco office building last summer for a fire-sale price. Now he wants to turn it into “the country’s first office resort.” The locally based firm led by Cyrus Sanandaji has filed plans to add Beverly Hills-style luxury to the 11-story building at 60 Spear Street, in […]