San Jose-The San Jose City Council has granted a six-month extension to the Palladium Company, which plans to build a billion-dollar shopping and entertainment destination in the downtown area.

NOVATO, CA-Basin Street Properties has negotiated a five-year lease deal with a technology firm for Novato's Golden Gate Plaza. The Plaza was recently shifted to the same power grid as the Novato Community Hospital, which opened last May.

SAN JOSE-By 2004, SJSU will be self-sufficient, and will provide power to the new city hall and library, with its $45 million power plant expansion. The university has sold $15 million in bonds to pay for the project, and will need to come up with another $30 million for construction costs.

SAN FRANCISCO-Approvals have been doled out recently for a handful of senior and assisted living centers in the Northern California region. One of the projects will convert a San Francisco theater for housing. Three others will be built from scratch.

SAN FRANCISCO-Approvals have been doled out recently for a handful of senior and assisted living centers in the Northern California region. One of the projects will convert a San Francisco theater for housing. Three others will be built from scratch.

STANFORD, CA-Stanford University has approved Carnegie's plans to build a new 1,000-sf scientific research center on a seven-acre site on campus that it leases from the university.

SAN FRANCISCO-Approvals have been doled out recently for a handful of senior and assisted living centers in the Northern California region. One of the projects will convert a San Francisco theater for housing. Three others will be built from scratch.

PETALUMA, CA-Jon Lefferts, vice president of the Real Estate Merchant Banking Group at Wells Fargo Bank for the past four years, has stepped into a senior management role at Basin Street Properties.