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Athleta plans to nearly double HQ size
July 25th, 2011PETALUMA — Women’s activewear retailer Athleta, a division of San Francisco-based apparel giant Gap Inc., plans to nearly double the size of its 200-employee headquarters office in Petaluma this fall as the brand’s brick-and-mortar retail initiative picks up the pace.
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Fast-growing REIT buys big San Rafael building
July 18th, 2011SAN RAFAEL — The purchase of a mostly full 127,000-square-foot San Rafael office building was part of a a Los Angeles-based real estate investment trust’s plan to grow quickly in key Northern California and Pacific Northwest job markets.
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Leases and sales: Week of July 4, 2011
July 4th, 2011Commercial real estate leases and sales in north San Francisco Bay area counties
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Basin Street completes $13 million purchase of Enphase expansion campus
June 30th, 2011PETALUMA — Basin Street Properties has completed the repurchase of three Petaluma office buildings totaling 210,000 square feet, with almost half of it reserved for local photovoltaic system developer Enphase Energy to expand into later this year.
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Cornerstone adds two more buildings to Petaluma portfolio
May 23rd, 2011PETALUMA — Cornerstone Properties SA LLC has expanded its North Bay commercial real estate holdings with the purchase of two former Equity Office buildings in Petaluma with a total of 93,000 square feet.
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Redwood Health Services to relocate
May 11th, 2011SANTA ROSA — Redwood Health Services, a health insurance company that provides employee benefits and third-party administrative services, plans to relocate to the Fountaingrove area of northeast Santa Rosa.
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Top commercial real estate deals: Second quarter 2010 – First quarter 2011
May 2nd, 2011The “Top Deals and the People who Made them Happen” represent the top five leases and sales for each Marin, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties. They are based on submissions from the top 10 largest brokerages.
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Bank of the West hires three for its wine group
April 21st, 2011NAPA – Bank of the West have hired Robin Wenzel, Jason Grace and Marisa Montanez for the Premium Wine Group based in Napa, nearly doubling the group in size.
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Commercial Real Estate: Cost reset in Petaluma brings wave of space absorption
April 18th, 2011A number of purchases and leases of Petaluma office properties helped boost net absorption there by 200,400 square feet for the 12 months ending in the first quarter, according to newly released figures by Keegan & Coppin/ONCOR International.
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Commercial real estate market shows signs of strengthening
March 14th, 2011Businesses are more confident about securing space for their operations this year than they were in the past two, according to local commercial real estate market experts. Sonoma County job growth is leading that of other counties in the state, observed Al Coppin, president of commercial real estate brokerage Keegan & Coppin Co. Inc. He pointed to major leases in the Highway 101 corridor in Sonoma and Marin counties in the past several months: Cyan Optics, Calix, Métier, Central Payment Corp., BioMarin Pharmaceutical, ProSight Specialty Insurance and Amy’s Kitchen.
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Marin County office: Outlook brighter than in two years
March 14th, 2011The rough ride endured by the Marin County commercial market in the late part of the decade got smoother in 2010. This trend continues in 2011.
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North Sonoma County corridor: Wine helps ease industrial vacancy
March 14th, 2011While the Santa Rosa north corridor real estate market saw an increase in vacancy rates in 2009, during 2010 there was a decrease in the industrial vacancy for the region and office vacancy remained flat.
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Petaluma office and industrial: Industrial rents expected to rise slightly
March 14th, 2011There was a high level of office market adjustment within Petaluma in 2010, but commercial real estate in the city overall appears poised for continued recovery.
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Santa Rosa office: Market activity returns in early 2011
March 14th, 2011The free fall of the Santa Rosa office market has slowed and tour activity has picked up substantially since the first of the year.
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Petaluma Health Care District takes first step to sell, lease Southpoint property
March 3rd, 2011PETALUMA — The Petaluma Health Care District board at its most recent meeting declared the current site of the Petaluma Health Center at 1301 Southpoint Blvd. a surplus asset, the first formal step in selling the building or leasing the space.
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Commercial Real Estate: Brokers see better market in 2011
January 31st, 2011After being hit hard by the housing crash of 2006 and double-whammy of economic recession and financial markets collapse of 2008, more North Bay commercial real estate markets appeared to be coming off the bottom of the market in 2010 and headed toward stabilization in 2011, according to market experts.
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San Francisco investor acquires Santa Rosa office complex
January 17th, 2011SANTA ROSA — A San Francisco-based real estate investor and developer recently acquired a five-building, 70,000-square-foot office complex in southwest Santa Rosa that had been part of a large North Bay commercial property portfolio until foreclosure last year.
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Sale of Rattigan, other state buildings delayed by court challenge
December 29th, 2010State courts have put off the pending $2.33 billion sale-leaseback deal for 11 state office properties statewide, including the Judge Joseph A. Rattigan Building in downtown Santa Rosa.
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Morgan Stanley lease fills much of Fountaingrove building
December 6th, 2010SANTA ROSA — Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s planned consolidation of its two Santa Rosa offices early next year will nearly fill one of the newest top-end office buildings in the city.
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Morgan Stanley consolidates Santa Rosa offices in Fountaingrove
November 29th, 2010SANTA ROSA — Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC plans to consolidate its Santa Rosa offices to a new 23,000-square-foot location in the northeast part of the city early next year.
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