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May 7, 2024 by

State signs off on Los Gatos housing plan

After months of contentious debate among residents and town officials, Los Gatos has received state approval to build...

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May 6, 2024 by

Silicon Valley water district files lawsuit against director

Valley Water is suing one of its directors for removing confidential documents from its district offices. The water...

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May 6, 2024 by

Former Silicon Valley congressional challenger faces federal complaint

The unsuccessful March primary challenger to Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren is facing a federal election complaint for connections to...

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May 6, 2024 by

Silicon Valley leaders push multibillion-dollar housing bond

Regional leaders are brainstorming ways to keep affordable housing production up and eyeing a hefty funding source. The...

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May 5, 2024 by

The Biz Beat: San Jose’s Burger Bar is a 1950s classic

Burger Bar in San Jose might have been what musician Chuck Berry was thinking about when he rhapsodized...

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May 4, 2024 by

South Bay to see more self-driving cars on the road

One driverless taxi service plans to stretch its presence into the South Bay, after years of testing its...

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A closer look at BART’s extension to Santa Clara

A closer look at BART’s extension to Santa Clara

Despite ballooning costs and delays, BART's much-anticipated extension in Silicon Valley is inching forward as pre-construction work begins on the transit agency's Santa Clara stop. Editor Nick Preciado digs into the update with reporter B. Sakura Cannesta, who covers Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.

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Ritchie: The personality of ownership

Ritchie: The personality of ownership

As we see the first distressed office building sale transactions of what is romantically called The Great Reset — also known as the greatest single asset class value extinction event in commercial real estate history — a few observations about the leasing of these battered towers come to mind. Selling for pennies on the dollar from the prices of just three years ago, we are definitely seeing a category of more engaged, local and private new buyers. The great office value boom of the pre-pandemic era, say from around 2012-2019 followed by a brief gasp of hope that it would...