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Marissa Mayer’s landlord recalls history of legendary Palo Alto address where she now works
Former Yahoo CEO and Google founding team member Marissa Mayer is going back to her roots with Lumi Labs, a new tech incubator she is starting from a fabled Palo Alto address that she says “has a lot of good juju.”
Saeed Amidi, the owner of the building, agrees about the building's good luck. That's because buying 165 University Ave. three decades ago and hosting companies like Google and PayPal there is what helped him create Plug and Play, one of the region's most active tech incubators and investors.
Amidi…
James Bond-styled apartments may give Elliot Park neighborhood a license to grow (gallery)
The largest housing development in Elliot Park since 2007 will test the most untapped quadrant of downtown Minneapolis.
Tenants began moving into Kraus-Anderson Cos.’ 17-story HQ Apartments tower at 819 Portland Ave. in March. The project's level of success could be a key factor in whether or not Elliot Park becomes the Twin Cities' next hot neighborhood.
“It’s the North Loop of 10 years ago,” said Brent Rogers, whose company, Minneapolis-based Saturday Properties, served as development…
Triangle Rock Club expands to Durham in old Walmart store
After years of talk about opening a new location in Durham, the Triangle Rock Club has finally grabbed a hold of space for a climbing gym in the Bull City. The location: an old Walmart Supercenter.
The indoor rock climbing company has signed a lease for a facility at 1010 Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, in south Durham.
The search took more than four years, Triangle Rock Club Managing Partner Joel Graybeal says. The goal has been to find space for a gym that would meet growing demand and accommodate…
On the hunt for capital, $125M Seattle condo tower project turns to CBRE
CBRE anticipates strong interest from international and domestic financiers.
It’s finally here: Water Street Tampa begins vertical construction with JW Marriott
Although Tuesday’s groundbreaking of a 26-story JW Marriott hotel marks the official start of Water Street Tampa’s transformation of the city’s skyline, getting to this point has required multiple evolutions of the development itself.
Water Street, which spans 50 acres between the southern tip of downtown Tampa's waterfront and the central business district, will build more than 9 million square feet of commercial, residential, hospitality, educational, entertainment, cultural and retail space.…
Hawaii Senate skips conference, passes investment real estate tax bill
The Hawaii state Senate on Monday gave final passage to a bill that seeks to amend the state constitution by allowing the Legislature to tax investment properties and earmark the revenue for public schools, after bypassing a conference committee to discuss amendments made by the House.
The bill now places a question on the November ballot that will read “Shall the Legislature be authorized to establish, as provided by law, a surcharge on investment real property to be used to support public education?”
The…
Honolulu design firm Philpotts Interiors updates logo, website
The new logo was designed by London-based branding firm Kingsland Linassi.
Builder plans nearly 200 new homes south of the Minnesota River
A Burnsville-based company will develop more than 63 acres for 164 detached single-family homes and 24 attached twin homes.
Exclusive: Nearly 500 homes next to this East Bay BART station could transform a neighborhood
The project aims to transform 25 acres next to BART into a new mixed-use development.
See which Houston neighborhoods saw the biggest drops in average sales price
The neighborhood with the largest decline had year over year prices go down by 16 percent.