What the 10 fastest-growing metro areas reveal about the world of remote work
The San Francisco Bay Area claimed the number one position on the list with 4.8% growth in 2022, driven by technology, innovation, and startup growth.
Category Archives: Press
How the suburbs are subsidized
This is an excellent video that I would encourage all of you to watch. It provides a visual look at city finances and explains how car-dependent suburbs are usually heavily subsidized by productive urban places.
Panoramic Interests Plans to Bring 239 Units of Housing to Berkeley
San Francisco-based Panoramic Interests could be adding another new development to the housing market in downtown Berkeley in the near future.
The Way Los Angeles Is Trying to Solve Homelessness Is ‘Absolutely Insane’
This is the paradox of housing development in Los Angeles and so many other cities. The politics of the affordable housing crisis are terrible. The politics of what you’d need to do to solve it are even worse.
Not Everyone Should Have a Say
To speed up permitting for energy projects, we’ll need to rethink community input.
A 95-Square-Foot Tokyo Apartment: ‘I Wouldn’t Live Anywhere Else’
TOKYO — At the end of a long day at work in the offices of Japan’s professional baseball league, Asumi Fujiwara returned to her apartment and changed into pajamas
Work From Home And The Real Estate Apocalypse
We study the impact of remote work on the commercial office sector. We document large shifts in lease revenues, office occupancy, lease renewal rates, lease durations, and market rents as
firms shifted to remote work in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
5 people you need to know in Berkeley and Emeryville
The Business Times continues our Hot Spots series this week, introducing you to people and projects in the region’s hottest areas. This week we stop into two crown jewels of the East Shore, Berkeley and Emeryville.
Panoramic Interests pitches fourth downtown Berkeley project this year
Panoramic Interests is on quite the spree in Berkeley.
The San Francisco developer wants to raise a 17-story mixed-use building with 239 apartments and ground-floor commercial space at 2274 Shattuck Ave., an approximately half-acre lot in Berkeley’s downtown currently home to the Regal UA Theatre.
Why America Can’t Build
The goal of the 2009 Sepulveda Pass Freeway Expansion Project seemed simple. A carpool lane was to be added to reduce congestion on a 10-mile stretch of Los Angeles’s I-405 freeway, the second most congested road in the U.S.
