The proposed industrial park will include two buildings on a 23.5 acre parcel.

It was a prolific year overall for Swift in the Bay Area alone, with 14 transactions — split nearly 50-50 between buying and selling — totaling 4.5 million square feet and $1.6 billion.

JBC paid $172.5 million in 2015 for the land, with MetLife taking on a stake. Looking at the investment, it was clear that the location, quality of the building and leasing fundamentals meant that MetLife would be comfortable holding onto the asset through any potential market corrections.

Even for a megadeveloper that specializes in mega-projects, the last few years have been blockbusters for the growing Bay Area team at Hines.

One of Oakland's largest residential developments of the decade was worth the wait, adding 162 housing units to Telegraph Avenue.

At the the formerly underutilized site around Union City's BART station, Windflower Properties pulled off a feat in transit-oriented housing.

The property not only provides vital housing and help to families in need, it also has helped enliven Mission Bay, which is dominated by large medical and office buildings.

The Martin Group group turned a 3.4-acre site on Oakland's auto row into “an oasis in an urban environment.”

With Stage 1075, a quickly transforming Mid-Market neighborhood received one of its first infusions of for-sale housing in years, at, of all places, the site of the former Imperial Theater and porn palace.

The great Upstate/Downstate divide in home values is starkly evident in the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The typical home in the Buffalo metropolitan area, which includes Erie and Niagara counties, is valued at $135,000. That's 67.3 percent cheaper than the corresponding figure for the New York City metro, where the median home value is $413,200.

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