Mortgage lender reopening eastside location
The office is expected to open in June.
Bain-backed payments company opens office in Plano
Syncapay, an investor-backed holding company that is acquiring upstart payment firms, has opened with an office in Plano.
Nashville wasn’t even in the running — then landed a global finance HQ with lucrative jobs
“This opens up an entirely new type of company that would locate here. This is not someone's back-office operations. We love those, by the way. This is a global headquarters,” says Gov. Bill Haslam.
CapFed CEO: Acquisition will ‘teach us the ropes’ in commercial real estate
With the residential mortgage market stagnant, it makes sense that Capitol Federal Savings Bank would want to increase its business in the red-hot commercial real estate market.
San Mateo fintech doubling workforce to help Twitter, Amazon pay bills
A fast-growing Bay Area fintech bets that accounts payable will move to the cloud, just as accounting and customer-relationship management functions have done.
Banner Bank signs long lease for highly visible Sacramento site
After an extensive renovation, an office building on a busy Sacramento corridor will be three-fourths occupied by a bank looking to raise its profile.
Davis starting process of rethinking downtown
With no updates to its downtown plan in nearly 20 years — and some concepts going back farther — the city of Davis is starting a process to rethink its urban core.
Berkeley-based Opticos Design Inc. hosted a meeting last week to get feedback on what Davis’ future downtown might resemble, under a city contract. Daniel Parolek, an Opticos principal who helped run the meeting, said it focused on a big picture framework, defining spaces and “opportunity sites” within the city.
“We’re…
Attention HQ2 cities: Amazon hates taxes so much it’s threatening to move jobs out of Seattle
Amazon doesn't kid around when it comes to taxes.
It's said that Jeff Bezos chose to headquarter Amazon in Washington state because there's no income tax.
Then Amazon spent years fighting legislation that would force it to collect and remit sales tax in states where it doesn't have a physical presence.
Now, the city of Seattle has proposed added what's being called a “head tax” on employers that would be based on the number of employees and their salaries. It aims to raise funds to expand homelessness…
Chase Tower has new owners after $78.8M sale; renovations planned
Arizona's tallest building has a new owner following a trustee sale earlier this month, according to Business Real Estate Weekly.
The 40-story Chase Tower in downtown Phoenix recently was purchased by 201 North Central Avenue Property LLC, a joint venture between Phoenix-based Wentworth Property Co. and New York-based Taconic Capital Advisors LP, reports BREW. An affiliate of that entity took title to the Chase building with a $78.8 million bid at an April 13 trustee sale. That bid included a 1,900-space…
Uh-oh Philadelphia! Amazon hates taxes so much it’s threatening to move jobs out of Seattle
Amazon doesn't kid around when it comes to taxes.
It's said that Jeff Bezos chose to headquarter Amazon in Washington state because there's no income tax.
Then Amazon spent years fighting legislation that would force it to collect and remit sales tax in states where it doesn't have a physical presence.
Now, the city of Seattle has proposed added what's being called a “head tax” on employers that would be based on the number of employees and their salaries. It aims to raise funds to expand homelessness…