East Bay Office Space Market Report
Ella Baker Center
The Ella Baker Center just inked their new 5 year lease at 1970 Broadway in downtown Oakland. Stephen Carlson and Scott Stone assisted The Ella Baker Center in their search of potential office locations over the past six months. To learn more about the Ella Baker Center or to donate to their cause please go [...]
Read More »FBI Closes Out 2010 With A Bang
The Federal Bureau of Investigation closed out the year signing downtown Oakland’s largest new lease of the year. The agency signed a whopping 15 year deal in the Lake Merritt district for 76,737 feet. The FBI previously held 44k plus square feet down the street at neighboring 180 Grand. The building is part of the [...]
Read More »Popular ‘Free B’ shuttle in Oakland Looks to Expand
Oakland’s ‘Free B’ shuttle that connects Jack London to the Lake Merritt district via Broadway is looking to expand its current service. Daily ridership started in August with about 1,300 riders daily and has quickly increased to an average of 1,919 daily riders. By August 2011 ridership is expected to average 2,500 daily riders. Merchants [...]
Read More »Tech Health Gage at Highest Point Since 2001 Bust
That’s right the technology world is doing its best since the crash in 2001. That is great news for Oakland as it is trying to brand itself as a technology hub with the sort of renaissance that is taking place. Leading the way is local company Pandora with many others following suite. This is great [...]
Read More »Non Profits Taking Advantage of Economy to Buy
Many Bay Area Non Profits are taking advantage of the current economic climate to buy up real estate. Before the fall of the economy is 2008 many non profits were perpetually priced out of a purchase option. Now with the current interest rates so low and a need for cash many owners have dropped their [...]
Read More »Jack London Square to Possibly Get A New Majority Owner & Much Needed Capital
The news broke this week that the famous redeveloped waterfront in Oakland known as Jack London square could possibly get a new majority owner with Divco West. The preliminary details of the deal have been revealed that the San Francisco based real estate investors would assume control of 95.5% leaving the original developers Ellis Partners [...]
Read More »Oakland Waterfront Ball Park
Oakland’s new mayor has decided to explore the waterfront ballpark option again. This would bring much needed revenue and business to Oakland’s waterfront and Jack London. We saw what happened across the bay in San Francisco and the idea is to have the same thing happen on this side of the bay. Just like any [...]
Read More »Watergate Towers Sale Close to Complete
Unspecified sources have confirmed the Watergate project in Emeryville is close to wrapping up the sale process. It looks as though LBA realty has added a new project to its portfolio. The three towers make up about 814,000 square feet of office space along the bay front. There has been quite a bit of action [...]
Read More »East Bay Green Mixer
Once a month on the third Wednesday of each month East Bay Green Drinks gets the green community and like minded folks together for a mixer to enjoy an opportunity to network and collaborate. Having started in 2000 just as the movement was getting started it has expanded to over 757 cities worldwide. Locally here [...]
Read More »Still Thinking Green
As a follow up to my last post regarding VC funding in 2010 I came across another interesting article outlining the green sector. It seems as though it still maintains headlines as the fastest growing sector in the bay area and I would imagine the nation as a whole. Companies locally such as in Fremont [...]
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