120-Acre San Jose Flea Market Site Put Up For Sale
May 28, 2008
The San Jose Flea Market land is up for sale. The 120-site, after going through nearly a decade of entitlements, has been put on the market for sale. The site is entitled for nearly 2900 homes and 350,000 square feet of commercial space (office and retail).
The site is a vast flat parcel in the middle [...]
Brocade Acquires North First Street Land in San Jose for Office Park
May 27, 2008
Brocade, in an SEC filing dated today indicated that it has acquired land on North First Street for the construction of a 562,000 SF office project. We were previously the first to report on April 4th that Brocade was in negotiations to lease the project, however; as it turns out the transaction actually involved a [...]
Read More >>Land Deal Approved by City Council; Earthquakes Stadium One Step Closer
May 22, 2008
The San Jose city council approved a plan by Oakland A’s and San Jose Earthquakes owner Lew Wolff to develop a mixed-use office, hotel, and retail project near the San Jose airport. The property which encompasses 66 acres will contain roughly 100K SF of retail, a 300-key hotel, and 1.5 million square feet of office [...]
Read More >>Silverstone Properties Fails in its Bid to Rezone Property
May 12, 2008
After spending nearly two years working to entitle 7 acres of commercial property in West San Jose for housing, Silverstone Properties came up a vote short in the city council. The council voted this past week 6-5 against the rezoning of the property from its current office/industrial use to residential.
The mayor and the city have [...]
Mountain View, France?
November 14, 2007
The French have selected Mountain View as one of the cities to inspire eco-friendly towns of the future. An article in the Mountain View Voice indicates that French official Jacques Attali has selected Mountain View as one of five cities representing the best role models in the world for this vision.
What is the vision?, eco-friendly [...]
Speculative Building in San Francisco Returns in a Big Way
October 31, 2007
For seven years, vacancy and rental rates in San Francisco made it economically infeasible for developers to build new office buildings. With rents up, vacancy rates down, and large blocks of space hard to find, speculative building has returned to San Francisco.
There is currently approximately 2M square feet of office space under construction in San [...]