PETALUMA, CA-Construction has started on a four-story Sheraton in this community 32-miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Sheraton at the Petaluma Marina is targeted to open in 2002. The Lok Group is building the 183-room, high-end hotel.
SAN FRANCISCO-The locally based Congress for the New Urbanism will release later this week the second phase of an extensive study focused on the revitalization of dying shopping malls.
NAPA, CA-Southcorp Wines, the Americas will move its HQ to one office in the Napa Valley by late summer. Following a merger between two wine giants, the firm has been searching in Santa Rosa, Sonoma and Napa.
OAKLAND-The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab has opened a new state-of-the-art supercomputer home in a renovated bank building downtown. The move highlights this city's efforts to redevelop itself partly as a high tech hub.
SAN FRANCISCO-The Mission Bay Project is going ahead with a 275,000-sf building despite the soft market, but another 150,000 sf building there has been put on hold. Catellus vows to keep the project moving despite the market downturn.
SAN RAMON, CA-Privately held Odyssey Pharmaceuticals has landed a sublease of 13,699 sf of office/R&D space at Norris Tech Center here for a reported savings of half the per-square-foot cost for direct space.
SANTA ROSA, CA-Even with the market slowdown elsewhere, the area north of the Golden Gate remains active with more than 55,000 sf of space leased in the past few weeks. Four major deals accounted much of this activity.
SAN FRANCISCO-Since its launch in February, the company's flagship software product has been implemented in more than 15 million sf of office buildings in Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
NOVATO, CA-Among the first tenants in Hangar Three at the reconverted site of the old Hamilton Air Force base here will be Golden Gate Insurance Brokers. The company inked a five-year lease for 8,386 sf feet at what is now called Hamilton Landing.
SACRAMENTO-If approved by a federal court judge, a compromise between the Sacramento City Council, environmentalists and developers could reopen the Natomas basin to development this year.