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San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout

A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...

DICK’S House of Sport Lands California Debut in 158,000 SQFT Former Macy’s at San Diego’s The Valley

DICK'S Sporting Goods has committed to a 158,000-square-foot experiential store inside the shuttered Macy's at The Valley, handing owners Lowe and Real Capital...

ForeFront Power Completes 7.7 MW Solar-Plus-Storage Canopy at Ventura County Government Center, Saving County $21MM

The County of Ventura has energized a 7.7 megawatt-DC solar canopy and battery storage system across six parking lots at its main Ventura...

OCVIBE Adds Five Kitchens to 50,000 SQFT Katella Commons as Anaheim District Underwrites Tenant Build-Outs

The Samueli family's OCVIBE has signed five more independent operators into Katella Commons, the 50,000-square-foot Anaheim market hall it is financing down to...

Los Angeles Office Occupancy Slides to 46.5% as National Attendance Holds Flat

Los Angeles gave back 1.2 percentage points of office attendance in the latest Kastle Systems Back to Work Barometer while the national average...

Sudberry Properties Secures $81.6MM Loan for 370,000 SQFT Otay River Business Park in Chula Vista

A Chula Vista business park that began seven years ago on the site of a former strawberry field and concrete plant has landed...

Khoshbin Co. Lists 110,000 SQFT Orangewood Corporate Plaza in Orange at $27MM, 43% Above Its 2025 Buy

Khoshbin Co. has put Orangewood Corporate Plaza back on the market at $27 million barely a year after paying $18.9 million for the...

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Imperial County Reverses California’s Largest Data Center as Water Fight Heads to Court

Two months after approving a nearly 1 million square foot hyperscale campus, Imperial County reversed course with a moratorium, drawing a lawsuit from...

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George Lucas’ $1B, 300,000 SQFT Museum Opens in Exposition Park on a $30-a-Year Ground Lease

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's privately funded museum opens to the public on Sept. 22 atop a former Exposition Park asphalt lot, landing...

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Midway Rising’s $3.9B San Diego Redevelopment Clears Sacramento as Risk Shifts From Courtroom to Capital Stack

Two bills enrolled in the final hours of California's legislative session would retire the environmental litigation risk that has stalled the 48-acre Sports...

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Swarco Buys 70,000 SQFT Vista Industrial Building for $21.7MM

Traffic-technology firm Swarco has acquired a 70,253-square-foot industrial building at 2365 Oak Ridge Way in Vista from JBM Properties for $21.7 million, one...

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California Data Center Energy Deal Lands as Southern California Cities Move to Ban the Facilities

A two-bill compromise finalized in Sacramento on Friday would hand California regulators new power over data center electricity rates, arriving as a wave...

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San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout

A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...

OCVIBE Adds Five Kitchens to 50,000 SQFT Katella Commons as Anaheim District Underwrites Tenant Build-Outs

The Samueli family's OCVIBE has signed five more independent operators into Katella Commons, the 50,000-square-foot Anaheim market hall it is financing down to...

Los Angeles Office Occupancy Slides to 46.5% as National Attendance Holds Flat

Los Angeles gave back 1.2 percentage points of office attendance in the latest Kastle Systems Back to Work Barometer while the national average...

Imperial County Reverses California’s Largest Data Center as Water Fight Heads to Court

Two months after approving a nearly 1 million square foot hyperscale campus, Imperial County reversed course with a moratorium, drawing a lawsuit from...

George Lucas’ $1B, 300,000 SQFT Museum Opens in Exposition Park on a $30-a-Year Ground Lease

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's privately funded museum opens to the public on Sept. 22 atop a former Exposition Park asphalt lot, landing...

San Diego Office Vacancy Holds at 13.4% as Investors Circle Well-Located Assets in 2Q 2026

San Diego's office market stayed on stable footing through the second quarter of 2026 even as occupiers kept trimming footprints, with steady leasing...

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Hudson Pacific, Blackstone’s $1.1B Hollywood Studio Loan Lands in Special Servicing Ahead of Maturity

The $1.1 billion CMBS loan backing Hudson Pacific Properties and Blackstone's marquee Hollywood studio-and-office portfolio has been handed to a special servicer just...

Costco Acquires 195,000 SQFT Costco Plaza in Alhambra from Kimco for $58.9MM

Kimco Realty has sold the six-building Costco Plaza in Alhambra to its anchor tenant, Costco Wholesale, in the center's first-ever ownership change since...

Yamaha Markets 25-Acre, 279,000 SQFT Cypress Campus for Sale as It Exits California for Georgia

Yamaha Motor Corporation U.S.A. has tapped Avison Young to sell its 25-acre Cypress headquarters campus and will permanently close its finance division's facility...

Segerstrom Center for the Arts Leases 12,000 SQFT Santa Ana Building to Expand Dance and Arts Schools

The Costa Mesa arts institution is wagering on a nearby Santa Ana building to relieve a space crunch at two of its fastest-growing...

Wood Investments Opens 150,000 SQFT Target at Plaza de Perris in Perris

Wood Investments Companies has re-anchored its Plaza de Perris center in Riverside County by demolishing a closed movie theater and replacing it with...

Port of LA Nears 1 Million TEUs in Second-Busiest July as Importers Race Tariff Deadlines

The nation's busiest container gateway moved 960,464 twenty-foot equivalent units in July, just shy of a second consecutive million-container month, even as loaded...

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Ready for My Close-Up, Mr. Bonta

David Ellison says he’ll pull Paramount out of California—and maybe sell the storied Melrose lot—unless a dozen attorneys general drop their antitrust suit....

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McNellis: One House, One Spouse — A Guide to Wealth Preservation

Why razor-thin overhead and the 'one house, one spouse' rule are the keys to preserving wealth in real estate and in life.

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McNellis: In Denial Over the New Normal

By John McNellis Developers always crash and burn in the movies. The eternal bad guy, the developers’ heinous plans to pave a beach,...

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The Art of the Quiet Exit, A Hudson Pacific Story

Hudson Pacific’s COO resigned with the usual boilerplate denial attached—but after a $572 million annual loss, a scrapped dividend and a stock down...

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The Data Center Bargain: What Every Town Should Demand

Free power. Free heat. Clean water. The bargain every town should be demanding. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...

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Bed Bath & Boomerang

By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) In August 2025, Marcus Lemonis, the executive chairman of Beyond, Inc.—which is to...

Swarco Buys 70,000 SQFT Vista Industrial Building for $21.7MM

Traffic-technology firm Swarco has acquired a 70,253-square-foot industrial building at 2365 Oak Ridge Way in Vista from JBM Properties for $21.7 million, one...

Zoox Plans San Diego Depot as Robotaxi Buildout Meets a Softening Industrial Market

Zoox will put sensor-equipped test vehicles on San Diego streets this month and plans to build a local charging and maintenance depot, arriving...

San Diego Industrial Vacancy Climbs to 7.4% as Amazon and Waymo Anchor Selective 2Q 2026 Leasing

San Diego's industrial market softened modestly in the second quarter of 2026, with vacancy ticking up and leasing cooling, even as positive year-to-date...

San Diego Office Vacancy Holds at 13.4% as Investors Circle Well-Located Assets in 2Q 2026

San Diego's office market stayed on stable footing through the second quarter of 2026 even as occupiers kept trimming footprints, with steady leasing...

Barnes & Noble Backfills Former Sport Chalet Box with 27,000 SQFT Store at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa

Barnes & Noble has re-tenanted a long-vacant big-box space on the upper level of South Coast Plaza, opening a 27,000-square-foot store that returns...

Inglewood Approves $261MM Public-Private Deal to Rebuild Downtown and Move Event Crowds by 2028

The Inglewood City Council has awarded a Plenary Americas-led consortium a fixed-price, $261 million contract to build three mobility hubs, a pedestrian bridge...

Skanska Lands $57MM Contract to Widen El Camino Real, Replace San Dieguito River Bridge in Del Mar

Two decades after San Diego officials first began studying how to fix one of North County’s most congested chokepoints, the city has finally...

CEDARst Secures $80MM Construction Loan for 197-Unit North Park Development

The financing lands in a North Park submarket where older, stabilized apartment stock continues to command strong tenant demand even as citywide vacancy...