EMERYVILLE, CA-The added supply is affecting rates. In Richmond, rates are $16 per sf or $17 per sf, down several dollars from the $24 per sf rate at the end of last year. In Emeryville, the market rate of $54 per sf has dropped to between $39 per sf and $45 per sf.

EMERYVILLE, CA-The added supply is affecting rates. In Richmond, rates are $16 per sf or $17 per sf, down several dollars from the $24 per sf rate at the end of last year. In Emeryville, the market rate of $54 per sf has dropped to between $39 per sf and $45 per sf.

REDWOOD CITY, CA-Jay Paul Co.'s 1.7-million-sf tech campus in Pacific Shores had companies lined up to lease nine of the ten buildings slated for completion this spring. Some 500,000 sf is now back on the market and more may be coming.

OAKLAND-Boston-based Torto Wheaton is the econometric market analysis unit for CB Richard Ellis. TWR experts found that a demand surge pushed Oakland's apartment vacancy rate below 3% last year.

SAN FRANCISCO-The Los Angeles-based urban renaissance investor is looking at one project in San Francisco and four or five in Oakland, says Avi Shemesh, the company's principal and co-founder. The firm plans to open a Northern California office soon.

VALLEJO, CA-The U. S. arm of a major Japanese manufacturer leased 100,000 sf at Mare Island, the former Navy base here, for the assembly of light-rail cars for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.

OAKLAND-The Moorish-influenced Fox Theater sits on Telegraph Avenue between 18th and 19th streets. The master plan for renovating and reopening the 73-year-old facility after 30 years will be ready by the middle of May.

SAN FRANCISCO-The century-old Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street is being restored by a joint venture between developers Wilson Meany LLC, Wilson Equity Office of San Mateo and Primus Infrastructure.