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Drybar Founder Alli Webb said she sees potential for the brand in Hawaii due to the state’s large tourism market.

An affiliate of Stiles Corp. acquired a site in the Beacon Lakes business park just west of the Dolphin Mall in Miami-Dade County so it can build a shopping center.

AMB Codina Beacon Lakes LLC, an affiliate of Prologis (NYSE: PLD), sold about 45 acres at Northwest 117th Place and Northwest 20th Street for $8 million to S/VIIB Beacon Lakes LLC, managed by Fort Lauderdale-based Stiles Corp. The property is off Florida’s Turnpike and the Dolphin Expressway, near Telemundo’s new headquarters. A…

Armed with more than $600,000 in new grants for cleanup and planning, West Sacramento is taking another plunge at plotting future development of the Pioneer Bluff and Stone Lock areas.

The move from a small R&D building in Sunnyvale's Moffett Park into a building in a newly renovated campus in Santa Clara means the research and development office for Nissan will have significantly more space to grow.

In between swishing three-pointers for the Philadelphia 76ers, forward Ersan Ilyasova netted an oceanfront home in Juno Beach for $3.25 million.

Ilyasova and his wife Julia V. Ilyasova bought the 4,370-square-foot home at 230 Celestial Way from David LaRue and Scott Buist, as co-trustees of Seraphine J. Manfredonia trust. BMO Harris Bank provided a $1.5 million mortgage to the buyers.

The price equated to $744 per square foot, which is a pretty good value for a home on the sand in South Florida.…

Owners of a retail center just north of University of California Davis plan to add dozens of apartment units as part of a redevelopment.

New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth George is selling her Isola Bella (“beautiful island”) estate at Langley on Whidbey Island.

Windermere’s Louis Muniz has the $4.5 million listing. Four years, ago the house was listed elsewhere for $5.5 million but was taken off the market.

George, who is married to retired Kern County (California) Fire Capt. Thomas McCabe, has had the property since 2002 and completed the house in 2006.

They’re selling to move to Seattle full-time, to steep themselves…

Which is in the greater public interest of San Francisco: Making substantial progress in finally providing housing for homeless people, or fully preserving the occupational prerogatives and political influence of the building trades unions?

Because it’s increasingly evident that we’re not going to be able to do both. For the second time in barely two years, San Francisco construction unions are attempting to shoot down an innovative proposal that would provide hundreds of units of housing for…

Several new for-sale communities are hitting the market across the Queen City.

As homebuilders are dealing with rising costs of land and construction while demand continues to intensify, the city is amid something of a high-density housing boom, with new-construction projects ranging from infill sites within or close to center city to large communities in the suburbs with hundreds of townhouses and community amenities.

Both local and national developers have gotten in on the frenzy, with townhouse…

The neighborhoods with the fastest-selling new home construction are different than they were a decade ago.