Google widens San Jose holdings with purchase of office building
Google widens San Jose holdings with purchase of big office building The Big Picture Google continues to expand its footprint in North San José with the purchase of an 83,900-square-foot office building at 4500 North First Street in the Alviso district for $25.2 million. The deal brings the company’s total investment in the area to […]
OpenAI signs South Bay office deal as tech company expands
OpenAI signs South Bay office deal in huge expansion for tech company The Big PictureOpenAI has signed a 10-year lease for approximately 439,000 square feet of office space at 350 and 380 Ellis Street in Mountain View, marking a significant expansion of the company’s physical presence in Silicon Valley. The deal covers two three-story buildings […]
Plans for a school come back into view for empty San Jose offices
Plans for large school come back into view for empty San Jose offices The Big PictureA vacant office building at 525 Race Street in San Jose could be converted into a private high school under a preliminary proposal from BASIS Independent Schools. The plan would reuse the three-story, 72,700-square-foot office building and add a 16,600-square-foot […]
Palo Alto to create retail zones on El Camino amid housing influx
Palo Alto to create retail zones on El Camino amid housing influx – Palo Alto Online Big PicturePalo Alto’s planning team is responding to a surge of housing interest along El Camino Real by rethinking how the city balances retail and residential uses on this historic commercial corridor. As new housing proposals crop up under […]
Infineon Technologies leases 200,000-square-foot San Jose building
Infineon Technologies leases 200,000-square-foot San Jose office – Silicon Valley Business Journal Big Picture Infineon Technologies is consolidating its San Jose operations into a single, larger office at America Center, leasing the entire 200,000-plus-square-foot building at 6001 America Center Drive. The move shifts the company out of several smaller nearby offices into a newer, Class […]
Coliseum deal in jeopardy
Coliseum deal is ‘almost dead’ – by Steve Tavares Big Picture The long-running effort to sell and redevelop the Oakland Coliseum site is on the brink of collapse. Alameda County’s deal to sell its 50 percent stake appears close to falling apart, largely because the buyer group has struggled to meet payment deadlines and financing […]
Apple starts to set up shop for San Jose expansion
Apple starts to set up shop for tech titan’s big San Jose expansion Big PictureApple has begun staffing its growing North San Jose campus, marking a significant expansion of the company’s physical presence in the city. In late 2025, Apple moved several hundred employees into its office building at 2509 Orchard Parkway and is preparing […]
Jack London Square Struggles With Empty Stores Despite New Business Law
Why one of the Bay Area’s most gorgeous spots is full of empty shops Big PictureOakland’s Jack London Square, a waterfront neighborhood with about 6,000 residents, has seen more than half of its storefronts sit empty, turning parts of the district into what some locals describe as a “ghost town.” Long-standing legal limits on what […]
Uncertain Future for San Francisco Centre Signals Downtown Retail Struggles
San Francisco Recovery Slumps as the Future of Its Downtown Mall Hangs in Limbo | KQED Big PictureDespite some positive signs in San Francisco’s downtown recovery — more street-level foot traffic, retail vacancy modestly improving and programs aimed at filling empty storefronts — the massive San Francisco Centre mall remains almost empty and is up […]
Mountain View’s Nob Hill Foods slated to close in May
Mountain View’s Nob Hill Foods slated to close in May – Mountain View Voice Big Picture Nob Hill Foods plans to close its Mountain View location in Grant Park Plaza this May after deciding not to renew the lease. The store has served the surrounding neighborhoods for decades, but the operator cited business and economic […]