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Oct

$250MM-$300MM Mixed-Use Development slated for San Mateo

Source: The Registry Bay Area Real Estate
Author: Jon Peterson

On the heels of large development announcements and purchases in Redwood City, San Mateo now seems poised to capture the attention of the development world as it unveils a new large development in the middle of the hot Peninsula submarket.

Philadelphia-based EBL&S Development is planning the development of Station Park Green, a mixed-use apartment, office and retail development in San Mateo located at 1700 and 1790 South Delaware Street.

The large development showcases the opportunity this market has to offer as one of Bay Area’s best connected towns. “I would think that this project will have a total development cost somewhere in the range of $250 million to $300 million,” says Alan Talansky, a vice president of development for EBL&S. He works out of the company’s regional office located in San Mateo at 30 West Poplar Avenue.

The developer is now going through a design review stage but anticipates the project to kick off shortly. “We should be able to start the project sometime during the first quarter of next year,” said Talansky.

This project was first brought up for approval in 2011. It was then put on hold by the developer due to the financial circumstances brought on by the Great Recession. All the while, the developer anticipated a time when the market would recover and allow the development to commence.

EBL&S has been given the okay by the city to construct 599 apartmens, 10,000 to 15,000 square feet of commercial space, 25,000 to 30,000 square feet of retail and 2.3 acres of parks.

It’s anticipated that the first part of the development will be with the housing. “I would think that the initial part of the development will be with around half of the apartment units constructed,” said Talansky.

The vast majority of the apartments will be market-rate units. In terms of the affordable development, the project is planning to have either 15 percent affordable units, or 10 percent will be considered as low-income units. Most of the apartment units are planned to be one-bedrooms. This kind of housing should attract either single and/or young professional working couples and empty-nesters. The project will have only five three-bedroom units, which is something that the city of San Mateo had requested.

EBL&S estimates that employees of nearby companies should be attracted to the apartment portion of the development. “I believe that the employees located in the nearly 300,000 square feet 400-450 Concar office project owned by Hines located across the street and other close by office buildings should be attracted to the housing that we will be providing,” said Talansky.

Station Park Green is a transit oriented development. There will be a Caltrain stop located in the development. This will allow apartment renters to commute either to the north or south. This project has been selected as one of the first LEED-ND projects to attain Gold status.

The retail planned for the development will feature a neighborhood retail theme. This will serve the existing customers already living in the area and the new renters of the apartment project. One amenity planned for the apartments is to have six car-sharing spaces for its renters to use.

EBL&S is unsure at this time what the ownership structure of the project will be in the future. There is a possibility that traditional construction financing could be used on the project. There also is a chance that some institutional partners might be brought into the project. This could be a REIT or a private equity real estate fund.

EBL&S owns two other properties in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to its Web site. This is the Sun Microsystems Building located at 2525 North First Street in San Jose and Kmart Plaza at 1700 South Delaware in San Mateo.

San Mateo Planning Massive $250MM to $300MM Mixed-Use Development

Aug

SF Economy On Fire thanks to Real Estate Market

Source: San Francisco Business Times

The current boom in the tech industry isn’t necessarily comparable to the 1990s dot-com bubble, although a downturn in high-tech would significantly hurt the Bay Area economy.
Those are some of the thoughts from John Williams, the Federal Reserve’s president in San Francisco, during a sit-down interview with the Contra Costa Times.
Williams said demand for products and services during the dot-com bubble came from companies that were a mirage. He noted the current tech boom isn’t necessarily as pervasive.

However, Williams said a burst tech bubble this time around would put a large dent in the economy, especially if the wealth of employees at companies such as Facebook and Google plummeted.
Williams said the Bay Area economy is improving dramatically with the exception of the housing industry in some outlying areas.
He noted San Francisco’s economy is “on fire,” thanks to in part to a strong real estate market.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/08/sf-fed-reserve-president-high-tech-boom-bubble.html

Aug

375 Alabama Street – Ground Floor PDR Space for Lease

13,235 – 17,000+/- square feet of the ground floor at 375 Alabama Street has been brought to the market for lease by Calco Commercial. This space is zoned PDR, has three (3) loading doors, one (1) drive-in door, two (2) pony dock-high doors, 17′ ceilings, excellent natural light and side loading via a small exterior yard.

375 Alabama Street is centrally located in the Mission District with excellent access to public transportation, parks, restaurants and shops and will be available for occupancy January 1, 2015 at $1.65 per square foot.

If you have questions about this property, or out other available commercial properties, please call 415.970.000.

Aug

Is Oakland the new SOMA?

Oakland looking more and more like the new SoMa for tech leasing

Source: San Francisco Business Journal
Author: Blanca Torres

As office rents soar and available space plummets in San Francisco and the Peninsula, now may be the right time for tech companies to pack up for Oakland.
Oakland is a prime position to attract tech tenants that could be priced out or simply can’t find space in the West Bay, said Bill Cumbelich, a broker with CBRE. Cumbelich mostly concentrated on San Francisco, but is now handling leasing for Oakland office buildings.
In the past, price was the primary reason to defect from San Francisco to the East Bay, but the scenario has changed. Oakland now boasts many of the urban amenities that draw tech tenants to San Francisco: proximity to BART and other public transportation, restaurants and nightlife. On top of that, housing is more affordable.
“We see this real estate cycle as a different scenario,” Cumbelich said. “It will be easier to attract and retain employees in Oakland. We think Oakland could be another submarket of San Francisco.”

Cumbelich isn’t the only person who sees Oakland as the SoMa of the future. Mitch Kapor, an early tech founder and philanthropist, moved his foundation and investment fund to Oakland two years ago and also made the Oakland-SoMa comparison. What made SoMa what it is now is that it started out as gritty and underutilized and was transformed into an edgy office market that attracted companies to break the norm.

Already, the migration trend of tenants going west to east is taking hold, said Trevor Thorpe, who manages CBRE’s East Bay operations. The wave started with non-profits, grew to professional services like law and engineering firms. Tech, he said, is next. The same pattern happened when SoMa went through revitalization as tenants were priced out of other parts of San Francisco. In the past three years, average asking rents in San Francisco shot up by 90 percent to $59 per square foot in 2013 from $31 per square foot in 2010. In Oakland, rents have climbed by 15 percent during the same period from $24 per square foot in 2010 to $28 per square foot in 2014 — half of the San Francisco average.

Besides rents soaring, San Francisco is the middle of a space crunch despite more than 4 million square feet of office space under construction since much of the new space is pre-leased. In a few years, development activity could hit a voter-approved cap on office development known as Prop. M that would stall prospective projects. Oakland’s has cheaper rents along with more available space will work in Oakland’s favor. The vacancy in San Francisco is 7 percent vs. 14.2 percent in Oakland.”We believe that the recent commercial real estate renaissance in the Oakland market is supporting a more broad-based and sticky (i.e. permanent) economic recovery and transference of users to the East Bay,” Thorpe said.

So far, the spillover effect from San Francisco to the East Bay counts more than 300,000 square feet of leasing. The East Bay has yet to land a marquis expansion or headquarters in this cycle, but that could happen once more creative space opens up in repositioned properties like the Sears department store that was recently bought by Lane Partners. Lane has plans to revamp the building as Uptown Station. Lane Partners is planning an extensive renovation of the 400,000-square-foot property that should be done by 2016. The work hasn’t even started and already a tech tenant with a requirement for 150,000 square feet has toured the building, Cumbelich said. “The building is being designed for tech,” he said. “We can land a big tenant in the next 12 months.”

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2014/08/oakland-new-soma-office-leasing-tech-tenants.html?ana=e_du_pub&s=article_du&ed=2014-08-05&u=19ELr7OrYiuRqEUxO8W3yQ0d406714&t=1407279084&page=all

Jul

More Office Construction Slated for SOMA

Source: San Francisco Business Journal
Author: Kystal Peak

Alexandria Real Estate Equities has submitted plans to transform the collection of warehouses and parking lots on the 500 block of Townsend St into 258,000 square feet of office space.

The new building would reach seven stories on Townsend Street and five stories along Harriet Street. This plan would presumably place the building right up against the I-280 freeway. However, in the proposal, the Planning Department notes that the freeway may eventually come down and be replaced by public space, according to SF Curbed. Alexandria planners were told to consider incorporating these hopes into their design in case it becomes a reality.

As SoMa continues to evolve in the latest tech and real estate boom, dozens of projects are changing the once very industrial landscape near the freeway.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/07/alexandria-real-estate-equities-sf-office-townsend.html

Jul

Calco Commercial Leases 11,395+/- SF Office Space – 375 Alabama Street

Calco Commercial represented the Landlord in an 11,395+/- SF office lease with the Munchery located at 375 Alabama Street. The creative office space was recently renovated and includes a full kitchen, HVAC, conference rooms, private offices & open areas, high ceilings, with superb natural light and a saw-tooth roof. Located in the Mission, 375 Alabama Street boasts excellent public transportation and is in close proximity to a myriad of local amenities, shops and restaurants.

Calco Commercial specializes in both Landlord and Tenant representation in the San Francisco and Peninsula markets. If have any questions about our available listings or about market conditions, call our office at 415.970.0000.

Jul

Calco Represents Tenant in 22,160+/- Lease – 480 Valley Drive, Brisbane

Calco represented Gander & White in the leasing of 480 Valley Drive in Brisbane. Located within the Crocker Industrial Park, 380 Valley Drive consists of 22,160+/- square feet of warehouse and improved office space, and a 11,800+/- square foot fenced and paved yard. The property also includes two (2) dock-high doors, two (2) drive-in loading doors, sprinklers, clear height of 22′-24′, heavy power and a front parking lot for 20 vehicles.

Calco Commercial, Inc. is a solution based San Francisco and Peninsula area commercial real estate brokerage firm. Specializing in Landlord and Tenant representation, plus the sales and leasing of industrial, office and flex use properties, Calco Commercial offers definitive results with personalized service. Steeped in knowledge about the Bay Area marketplace, Calco brings its clients over two decades of real estate experience coupled with unmatched customer service and prevailing technology. Calco has access to all of the major sources of market information, and the most current and high resolution property aerials and maps available. Utilizing these resources, Calco provides the tools to help their clients make the right decisions in the ever-changing real estate marketplace.

If you have any questions about our available listings or market conditions, please call 415.970.0000.

Jul

2014 Mid-Year Industrial Report: Vacancy Continues to Shrink, CAP Rates Up

Source: CoStar www.costar.com

The San Francisco Industrial market ended the second quarter 2014 with a vacancy rate of 4.3%. The vacancy rate was down over the previous quarter, with net absorption totaling positive 977,686 square feet in the second quarter. Vacant sublease space increased in the quarter, ending the quarter at 332,887 square feet. Rental rates ended the second quarter at $14.97, an increase over the previous quarter. There were no properties under construction at the end of the quarter.

Absorption
Net absorption for the overall San Francisco Industrial market was positive 977,686 square feet in the second quarter 2014. That compares to positive 69,743 square feet in the first quarter 2014, positive 505,972 square feet in the fourth quarter 2013, and positive 185,186 square feet in the third quarter 2013.

Vacancy
The Industrial vacancy rate in the San Francisco market area decreased to 4.3% at the end of the second quarter 2014. The vacancy rate was 5.8% at the end of the first quarter 2014, 6.0% at the end of the fourth quarter 2013, and 6.5% at the end of the third quarter 2013.
Flex projects reported a vacancy rate of 5.8% at the end of the second quarter 2014, 9.1% at the end of the first quarter 2014, 8.9% at the end of the fourth quarter 2013, and 9.2% at the end of the third quarter 2013.

Warehouse projects reported a vacancy rate of 3.7% at the end of the second quarter 2014, 4.7% at the end of first quarter 2014, 4.9% at the end of the fourth quarter 2013, and 5.6% at the end of the third quarter 2013.

Sublease Vacancy
The amount of vacant sublease space in the San Francisco market increased to 332,887 square feet by the end of the second quarter 2014, from 240,425 square feet at the end of the first quarter 2014. There was 147,837 square feet vacant at the end of the fourth quarter 2013 and 222,073 square feet at the end of the third quarter 2013.
San Francisco’s Flex projects reported vacant sublease space of 147,882 square feet at the end of second quarter 2014, up from the 135,533 square feet reported at the end of the first quarter 2014. There were 129,587 square feet of sub- lease space vacant at the end of the fourth quarter 2013, and 136,326 square feet at the end of the third quarter 2013.
Warehouse projects reported increased vacant sublease space from the first quarter 2014 to the second quarter 2014. Sublease vacancy went from 104,892 square feet to 185,005 square feet during that time. There was 18,250 square feet at the end of the fourth quarter 2013, and 85,747 square feet at the end of the third quarter 2013.

Rental Rates
The average quoted asking rental rate for available Industrial space was $14.97 per square foot per year at the end of the second quarter 2014 in the San Francisco market area. This represented a 3.6% increase in quoted rental rates from the end of the first quarter 2014, when rents were reported at $14.45 per square foot.
The average quoted rate within the Flex sector was $23.85 per square foot at the end of the second quarter 2014, while Warehouse rates stood at $11.26. At the end of the first quarter 2014, Flex rates were $23.01 per square foot, and Warehouse rates were $10.85.

Deliveries and Construction
During the second quarter 2014, no new space was completed in the San Francisco market area. This compares to 0 buildings completed in the first quarter 2014, one building totaling 36,000 square feet completed in the fourth quarter 2013, and nothing completed in the third quarter 2013. There was no Industrial space under construction at the end of the second quarter 2014.

Inventory
Total Industrial inventory in the San Francisco market area amounted to 95,310,805 square feet in 4,853 buildings as of the end of the second quarter 2014. The Flex sector consisted of 23,910,714 square feet in 789 projects. The Warehouse sector consisted of 71,400,091 square feet in 4,064 buildings. Within the Industrial market there were 505 owner-occupied buildings accounting for 12,486,342 square feet of Industrial space.

Sales Activity
Tallying industrial building sales of 15,000 square feet or larger, San Francisco industrial sales figures rose during the first quarter 2014 in terms of dollar volume compared to the fourth quarter of 2013.

In the first quarter, seven industrial transactions closed with a total volume of $153,598,100. The seven buildings totaled 667,191 square feet and the average price per square foot equated to $230.22 per square foot. That compares to 12 transactions totaling $84,675,000 in the fourth quarter. The total square footage was 480,193 for an average price per square foot of $176.34.
Total year-to-date industrial building sales activity in 2014 is up compared to the previous year. In the first three months of 2014, the market saw seven industrial sales transactions with a total volume of $153,598,100. The price per square foot has averaged $230.22 this year. In the first three months of 2013, the market posted two transactions with a total volume of $5,764,000. The price per square foot averaged $163.24.

Cap rates have been higher in 2014, averaging 6.70%, compared to the first three months of last year when they averaged 6.11%.

Jun

2070 Newcomb Avenue – 7,500+/- SF – LEASED

Calco Commercial Real Estate has leased 2070 Newcomb Avenue: 7,500+/- square feet of totally clear span warehouse with 28-30′ ceilings, substantial power, fully sprinklered and a side yard with private parking. 2070 Newcomb is located in the Bayshore Corridor area, just two blocks from the San Francisco Produce Market, and within close proximity to public transit.

If you have any questions about other available commercial real estate listings or the status of the San Francisco real estate market place, call 415.970.0000.

Jun

3130 20th Street – LEASED

Calco Commercial leased 2,863+/- square feet of ground floor creative office space in the central Mission location of 3130 20th Street to a consumer-oriented 3-D printer company. 3130 20th Street is situated in close proximity to multiple restaurants, shops, and public transportation.

For more information on Calco Commercial’s other available commercial properties/listings, call our office at 415.970.0000.