San Francisco
Los Angeles Borrows San Francisco’s Vacant to Vibrant Playbook With $500,000 Bet on Downtown Storefronts
Los Angeles is putting $500,000 in federal block grant money behind its own version of San Francisco's Vacant to Vibrant program, betting that...
Autonomous Excavator Maker Bedrock Robotics Hits $4.1B Valuation With $600MM Raise
Bedrock Robotics, the Waymo-alumni startup that retrofits excavators to dig without anyone in the cab, closed a $600 million Series C at a...
Los Angeles Misses AI Office Wave as VTS Counts 27% Jump in New AI Requirements
VTS research shows new AI office requirements up 27 percent nationally and nearly two-thirds of active demand locked up in San Francisco, New...
Southern California Sheds 6.7MM SQFT of Office Stock as California Inventory Shrinks While Texas and Seattle Grow
Southern California led a statewide contraction in office stock over the past year, with Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County together losing...
Weeks After $1.2B SoCal Logistics Play, EQT Lands Stockbridge for Up to $550MM
EQT AB is following its Southern California logistics push with a much bigger corporate bet, agreeing to acquire San Francisco-based Stockbridge for $375...
BRIDGE Housing Wins AA Rating from S&P, Setting the High-Water Mark for Nonprofit Housing Developers
S&P Global Ratings lifted BRIDGE Housing Corp.'s issuer credit rating and the rating on its outstanding debt to AA from AA-, rewarding the...
Cityview Recruits Multifamily Veteran Gabi Franco to Lead Development and Value-Add Portfolio
Los Angeles-based multifamily investor and developer Cityview has hired industry veteran Gabi Franco as managing director of asset management, handing him command of...
Suffolk Taps 30-Year Healthcare Veteran to Run Newport Beach Office as Orange County Hospital Pipeline Tops $5B
Suffolk has hired healthcare construction veteran Bobby Eagar as senior vice president and Orange County division manager, a move that puts three decades...
Orange Turns Vacant Storefronts Into Revenue With Weekly Fees and $5,000 Fines
The City of Orange has advanced a maintenance-and-security ordinance that converts its inventory of empty commercial buildings from a code-enforcement headache into a...
California’s Share of U.S. Export Trade Slips to 8% as Real Shipment Value Falls
California shipped $16.735 billion in merchandise abroad in May while the rest of the country surged ahead, dropping the state’s share of national...
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,...
California Clinches Nation’s No. 2 GDP Growth at 3.7% in First Quarter
California's economy grew at a 3.7 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2026, the second-fastest pace in the country, as a...
