After a $100 million makeover, the center is back after being closed for nearly 20 years. Some big names already booked for this year, says CEO Terri Trotter. "Just coming up in the next few months, we have Mandy Patinkin, for our 'Princess Bride,' TV show and Broadway fans. Really excited for that. Kamala Harris. The Gypsy Kings," shares Trotter.
Mold, flooding, and barely functioning heaters have plagued a Berkeley building housing low-income students, and owners are scrambling to sell or find a way to manage $9 million in repairs the apartment complex needs. City inspections confirm tenants' complaints that living in Evans Manor, owned by the Berkeley Student Cooperative, the largest student housing cooperative nationwide, presents a host of health concerns.
The foreclosure proceeding forced Academy West Investments to lose its ownership of the property, which the real estate firm had bought in 2020 for $34 million. In 2023, Terra Property Trust provided the Academy West affiliate with a loan for the University Park apartments that totaled $28.3 million, the county property files show. This means the foreclosure value was 26.5% below what the prior owner had paid for the property.
Plans for an eight-story apartment building are taking shape in the East Whisman area of Mountain View, a part of the city that is better known for office buildings and surface parking lots than high-density housing. The applicant, Jeffrey Stone of WTA Middlefield, is proposing to build a 460-unit apartment complex with nearly 9,400 square feet of ground floor retail at 490 E. Middlefield Road, replacing a two-story office building. Currently, the site is surrounded by other office buildings, but more residential growth is planned for the East Whisman area, including a massive development down the street at 675 and 685 E. Middlefield Road.
In an earnings call on Nov. 6, 2024, Douglas J. Healey, senior executive vice president of leasing for Macerich, which owns the mall, announced that RH (formerly Restoration Hardware) had signed a lease to take over the 50,000-square-foot building at 1000 S. Main St. Neiman Marcus closed the prominent corner location in 2021 after filing for bankruptcy the year before.
The spacious property in the 3100 block of Vittoria Loop in Dublin was sold on Nov. 14, 2025. The purchase price was $1,300,000. The unit was built in 2014. The layout of this three-story home includes three bedrooms and three baths. The unit sits on a 2,286-square-foot lot. This article was generated by the Bay Area Home Report Bot, software that analyzes home sales or other data and creates an article based on a template created by humans.
Grocery Outlet appears to be opening a new store on a prominent corner of Oakland's popular Temescal neighborhood, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle (the Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms). The Emeryville-based discount grocery chain has applied for a liquor license at 5055 Telegraph Ave., according to records at the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
A house in Alamo that sold for $4.6 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Contra Costa County in the past week. The county saw a total of 219 residential real estate sales during the past week, averaging $970,110. The average price per square foot was $550. The prices in the list below include real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of Dec. 15 even if the property may have been sold earlier.
Ellis Partners and Spirit Living Group submitted plans in December for the seven-story, 203-unit building on Claremont Avenue, next to the pink property that used to house The Graduate bar. The apartments would be market-rate, including some memory-care and assisted-living units. "There is very, very, very little senior housing in the East Bay, writ large, especially compared to what the demand is," said Patrick Flynn, senior vice president with San Francisco-based Ellis Partners.
Berkeley's historic homes have plenty of charms, but knob-and-tube wiring isn't one of them. Modernizing these antiquated electrical systems can add tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of home improvement projects, especially HVAC and appliance upgrades. That concern is what led to the creation last November of Mr. Poppy Electric, a Berkeley-based electrical contractor firm founded by longtime friends Tenzin Soepa and Andrei Smith, both Berkeley High School graduates.
The just-bought Sunnyvale housing property is at 870 and 874 East El Camino Real in Sunnyvale and was purchased for $76.9 million, according to documents filed on Jan. 9 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office. The new owner of the 184-unit Sunnyvale apartment hub is a group affiliated with New Jersey-based PGIM, the global investment management unit of life insurance company Prudential Financial, and Bay Area-based Interstate Equities Corp. The seller of the Sunnyvale residential complex was Singapore-based Mapletree, the county records show.
Acharya and Silicon Sage would frequently shift money from investors through numerous bank accounts at lightning-quick speeds to keep cash flows from drying up, according to papers filed by a court-appointed receiver. Silicon Sage and Acharya maintained 77 different bank accounts and engaged in at least 130,000 banking transactions over a period of eight years, the documents filed by the receiver show.
DANVILLE - Draeger's Market will shut its store in Danville within weeks, a closure that the local chain blames on the state of Blackhawk Plaza, where the grocery hub is located. "The biggest reason for our decision to close is the decline of Blackhawk Plaza," Richard Draeger, a co-owner of Draeger's Market, said in an interview with this news organization. "It's mostly empty. My best guess is that it's 70% to 80% vacant." The deterioration of the upscale mall has led to an erosion in sales for the Draeger's Market at 4100 Blackhawk Plaza Circle, according to Draeger.
The 1,758-square-foot unit, built in 1960, was sold on Nov. 5, 2025 for $2,400,000 which represents a price per square foot of $1,365. The layout of this single-story home includes three bedrooms and two baths. The property encompasses a generous 7,320 square feet of land. Other houses have recently been purchased nearby: In November 2023, a 1,339-square-foot home on the 41400 block of Joyce Avenue in Fremont sold for $1,500,000, a price per square foot of $1,120.
A Morgan Stanley real estate investment unit, acting through an affiliate, has paid $110.3 million for a two-building tech complex on Osgood Road in Fremont, documents filed on Jan. 6 with the Alameda County Recorder's Office show. San Jose-based Western Digital Technologies, a data storage company, is the tenant in the two-building tech campus, whose addresses are 44100 and 44200 Osgood Road in Fremont, public records and the company's website show.
The spacious property in the 100 block of Clover Hill Court in Danville was sold on Nov. 17, 2025 for $1,700,000 which works out to $721 per square foot. The house, built in 1971, has an interior space of 2,357 square feet. This single-story house boasts a generous living space with four bedrooms and three baths. Inside, there are two fireplaces. The property is equipped with forced air heating and central A/C.
In recent decades, the markers of adulthood have shifted for young American men: they are almost twice as likely to be single, less likely to go to college and more likely to be unemployed. Most significantly for their parents, they are also less likely to have fled the nest, with the term trad son springing into social media lexicon in recent months.
