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A Berkeley apartment project that has been stalled for five years will be California's first development to use a 2017 law that streamlined housing permits.

An affiliate of developer Blake Griggs Properties filed a proposal Thursday at 1900 Fourth St. with 260 apartments, including 50 percent affordable housing. The developer will use State Senator Scott Wiener's SB 35, which exempts the project from most city reviews because Berkeley hasn't approved enough affordable housing.

The 130 affordable…

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If you have $12 million and have always wanted to live in Marin County, a new estate up for sale for the first time since it was built in 1971 could make that possible.

Originally constructed by custom Marin builders Werner Schneider, the property sits on an acre in the tony North Bay town. It has been revamped over its lifespan by Paden Prichard and Hadley Builders.

The property has five bedrooms and six bathrooms and overlooks the Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito. High-end perks include a pool,…

Developing the two sites could help the city achieve some of its housing goals.

If successful, the measure would limit annual rent increases, tighten parameters under which landlords could evict tenants and create an elected board to deal with rent disputes.

Google’s new Boulder headquarters recently opened with flourish — and a pizza oven, an arcade games room and a climbing wall.

The company’s Colorado outpost, now numbering more than 700 employees, has many of the perks of its Silicon Valley mothership. Colorful Google bikes? Check. Massage and yoga rooms. Yup. Dog run? Of course. Plus there’s a public bike path that intersects the campus, allowing curious non-Googlers to get a glimpse of the tech life.

The 110,000-square-foot facility, at 30th and Pearl streets, is only one leg of a three-unit campus that was first proposed three years ago. Google, which has been leasing multiple offices spaces to make room for an expanding workforce, said the $131 million investment is intended to eliminate those constraints. The second building is expected to start construction soon. The campus, called Pearl Place, eventually will consist of 330,000 square feet of office space with room for about 1,500 workers.

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Philadelphia is among the 20 cities still in the running for Amazon's second headquarters, but a new analysis indicates Pennsylvania may have a better shot at landing Apple's new U.S. campus.

Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), in January announced plans for a new U.S. campus as part of a broader plan to create 20,000 jobs in the U.S. The new campus, part of a planned $30 billion in capital expenditure over the next five years, will initially house customer tech support employees.

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Birmingham-based Brasfield & Gorrie is starting work on a skyscraper project in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The company is building a 26-story, 742,000-square-foot office tower called Ally Charlotte Center, with Ally Financial as the anchor tenant. Crescent Communities is the developer, Brasfield & Gorrie is the general contractor, and Little Diversified Architectural Consulting is the architect of record.

The tower and its eight-story parking deck are the first part of a mixed-use development that…

JE Dunn Construction is moving from Brentwood, Tenn., in favor of downtown Nashville.

The Kansas City-based company has announced its new office at 29 Hermitage Ave. That's in the Music City's Rolling Mill Hill area, a southern gateway into Downtown. Across the street are the Trolley Barns, where tenants include Pinewood Social and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center.

JE Dunn reported $277.8 million in 2016 construction billings, ranking it No. 1 on the Nashville Business Journal's Top General Contractors…