In a 10/28/26 article by Chloe Gallivan in Bisnow, “The use of artificial intelligence is driving the world’s largest companies to reassess their workforce — and workspace — in the pursuit of efficiency. The technology is reshaping how employees work and collaborate, prompting employers to reevaluate their office layouts to promote more integrated workspaces, workplace…Read More→

In San Ramon’s Bishop Ranch there will be over 10,000 homes built on formerly-office building sites, and up in Concord at the Weapons Station there are 12,272 homes planned.  Using a ballpark of 3 residents per home or apartment, this translates to 30,000 new residents on the one end of I-680 and 36,000 new folks…Read More→

I’ve been gone for most of the month, taking an amazing vacation in Thailand and Vietnam, but still thinking of all the blogs I would have to write to catch up. There are many positive aspects to the San Francisco Bay Area office market, with Silicon Valley reporting 10 million square feet of office absorption…Read More→

  Move-in prime view space vacancy even lower at 2.8%, while the overall vacancy rate for San Francisco office space is 28%, way down from when it was 35% just a few years ago. Overall for all classes of office space there are currently almost 28 million square feet of vacant space, 27.8 million out…Read More→

A Major Office Leasing Dichotomy   On the one hand, office tenant improvement costs have gone through the roof, and at least here in the San Francisco Bay Area Region budgets of $40-80/rsf are common, which can cause great angst with landlords trying to justify making the deal. Amortizing the tenant improvements over a longer-term…Read More→

  Two articles in the same day crossed my desk. Visa is cutting 7% of its employees in efficiency push as AI reshapes work. “Visa joins a growing list of companies that have cited AI as a key factor in recent layoffs, including Microsoft, Oracle, Meta, Cisco, Cloudflare, PayPal, Atlassian, and Standard Chartered.” Business Today 8/12/26…Read More→