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The Bay Area’s private high schools remain in California’s top tier, rivaled only by educational institutions in the greater Los Angeles region.

Ratings and review company Niche recently released its annual school rankings, shedding light on how schools match up on everything from academics to college preparedness. The Bay Area's top 20 high schools span the East Bay, Marin County, San Francisco, the Peninsula and down to San Jose, all making the cut for top 55 private schools statewide.

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Shorenstein Properties is putting forth its plan to add to downtown Sacramento’s housing stock, filing a proposal for an eight-story, 162-unit project at 601 Capitol Mall.

Not far from the hustle and bustle of Douglas and Woodlawn sits a quiet gem of a home in Eastborough.

It's the latest home to be featured the WBJ's new Dream Homes series, which puts a weekly spotlight on a lavish, or otherwise interesting, home on the market in the Wichita area.

This week's subject is a beautiful 6,500-square-foot, seven-bedroom estate on Highland Road in Eastborough. The estate features an in-ground pool, six fireplaces and a four-car garage.

From its double-thick quartz…

As demand for downtown housing grows, developers push south

Downtown Austin is changing by the minute. Here's a recap of the bigger projects on the horizon. Some of them can only be seen in our crystal ball at this point, but a few have already started making their way toward the sky.

6 x Guadalupe would be 837 feet high — 66 stories — and the tallest building in Austin if it gets the city permits required. Go ahead, dive into the slideshow for a closer look at the renderings. It looks like a taller tower is being blocked by a smaller one, but it's…

TIER REIT — the developer bent on turning The Domain into Austin's next downtown-like office market — is blazing ahead with new construction and said it’s close to inking significant leases for yet another skyscraper there. It’s also almost fully leased Third + Shoal downtown, Facebook's new local headquarters. The social media giant already had the lion's share of the building — its second downtown tower here to occupy — but it just ordered up space for another hundred or so employees.

The 28,000-square-foot H-E-B Grocery Co. store at Memorial Drive and Dairy Ashford Road will soon shutter.

That’s according to publicly shared posts of H-E-B Houston area President Scott McClelland’s Aug. 9 statement on the private Facebook Group “Memorial Area Eats!” and reported by the Houston Chronicle. The grocer at 14540 Memorial Drive will close Sept. 9 due to poor service and sales, and it will be converted into an e-commerce fulfillment center, the first in the area, to help the…

It was nearly four years in the making, but a new hotel in the Pearl District is now officially up and running.

The Canopy by Hilton, a “lifestyle hotel brand” from Hilton, opened its doors at the end of July. The 153-room hotel sits at 425 N.W. 9th Ave. It comes from a partnership that included local real estate firm Menashe Properties, as well as PM Hotel Group, the Buccini/Pollin Group and Canopy by Hilton. The Menashes are also part owners of the new hotel.

“It's the first hotel we've done,”…

August is a time for California lawmakers to make their annual and unseemly mad dash toward the finish of their session less than four weeks from now. Bills dealing with anything controversial have formed a typical traffic jam. Time as much as politics will determine what will eventually roll past the finish line.

It’s an unacceptably slapdash way to organize law-making for the world’s fifth-largest economy, but it’s what we’ve got.

In any case, few topics in California are as routinely…

Bay Area homes continue to swiftly appreciate, as seven more of the region's cities have median home prices forecast to surpass $1 million in 2019, according to a new Zillow report.

With a median home price of $953,600, the Bay Area already has 46 cities in the $1 million home club — more than any other metro area nationwide.

On the Peninsula, East Palo Alto, Broadmoor Village (an enclave within Daly City), Daly City and Brisbane are all on track to hit this mark, as are the East Bay cities…