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Ratings and review company Niche has come out with its annual school rankings, which include the San Francisco Bay Area's top school districts — with metrics delving into everything from average SAT scores to graduation rates.

Palo Alto Unified School District topped this year's list, boasting of a 1390 average SAT score, a graduation rate hovering around 95 percent and a student-teacher ratio of 19:1. The district also ranked best…

A project that once received over 40 letters of opposition from Burlingame citizens finally has a stamp of approval.

Fore Property Co.’s 128-unit development, which was approved by the Planning Commission earlier this week, will involve the merging of seven separate lots at the northeast corner of Bayswater Avenue and Myrtle Road near downtown. The properties now house a mix of auto repair garages, single-family homes and smaller apartment buildings.

It wasn’t easy getting there. Fore re-designed…

It’s been two months since city and RiNo Art District leaders threw a block party celebrating completion of most of the roadwork along a completely rebuilt stretch of Brighton Boulevard north of downtown. This weekend, a project that figures to add significant car, bike and pedestrian traffic along that corridor will open to visitors.

Guests be won’t be able to stay at the Source Hotel until Sept. 1, but its three in-house restaurants, market hall shopping area and top-floor bar/New Belgium Brewing Co. taproom will open Saturday. At 3330 Brighton Blvd., the eight-story modern structure is the next door to the 1880s foundry building that is home to its predecessor, the Source market hall.

“It really completes the experience,” Kyle Zeppelin, president of the project’s owner/developer Zeppelin Development, said. “It lives as one complex.”

The market, on the hotel’s second level, features 14 vendors, some with spaces that can be separated from the main room by garage doors like in the o..

The dissolution of a public-private partnership is putting a planned Boulder Junction project at the former Pollard Motors site in jeopardy. Facing a tight deadline and uncertain funding, the city and its remaining partner are unsure if the deal can be pulled off in time to save 179 affordable homes and cost-limited retail space meant to boost local small businesses.

A joint development agreement between the city and Denver-based Zocalo Community Development has been abandoned “following (a) mutual decision,” according to both parties. Zocalo felt the ambitious project — which includes 119 affordable rentals, 48 co-op rooms and 12 affordable and 153 market-rate townhomes for purchase, plus commercial space — could not make it through Boulder’s planning process in time to qualify for $4 million in federal funding.

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A biotech campus in Boulder sold, according to public records.

The startup, Visual Vocal, was incubated in the offices of NBBJ and now the company is working with McKinstry on ways to use augmented and virtual reality to teleport people to job sites.

The building will be called The Franz, in tribute to German immigrant Franz Huning, a Santa Fe pioneer who moved to Albuquerque in 1852.

If Amazon.com Inc. is worried about the statewide economic climate at its second headquarters, Pennsylvania's two contenders – Philadelphia and Pittsburgh – may not have a strong shot at landing the $5 billion, 50,000-job campus.

That's according to CNBC, which on Thursday ranked HQ2 finalists based on how their states perform in the news outlet's annual Top States for Business contest. Texas ranked No. 1 in that analysis, which gave Austin and Dallas high praise.

CNBC praised Texas' infrastructure…

As the clock counts down to Amazon’s HQ2 announcement, Dallas and Austin have a strong shot at the $5 billion second headquarters, data from CNBC's latest study on competitiveness suggests.

Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) could narrow the finalists as soon as this month for the new headquarters and the 50,000 jobs the company says will go with it. Or, Amazon could wait until November or December, although most involved in the process doubt that because the announcement could complicate the holiday…