Office

Rincon Place, a new park in SoMa/Rincon Hill, is situated between the Bay Area Metro Center regional agencies' headquarters and Tishman Speyer's community Lumina, and will provide a community gathering space.

More office buildings are slated to be repurposed into apartments, retail, and/or hotels, helping to keep vacancy at bay.

In exchange for incentives, Charter Communications has committed to add more than 1,000 jobs in Connecticut and invest $100 million in the state over the next seven years.

For Amazon, "it's a combination of city planning, telecommunications landscape and real estate community mentality," WiredScore CEO Arie Barendrecht tells GlobeSt.com in the second part of a two-part interview.

The metro is quickly becoming a preferred destination for investment capital, as evidenced by the high level of interest received from both regional and national players for a recent office acquisition.

A total of 51% of the new lease transactions in Westchester County involved businesses in the health care or legal sectors. The largest deal in the third quarter was Montefiore Hospitals' renewal and expansion at South Westchester Executive Park in Yonkers for 281,497 square feet.

A roundup of recent deals, leases, executive moves, and other news from the past week.

Downtown has become the choice location for Millennials to live, work and play, so flexible-office space has exploded there to meet the growing demand, JLL's Richard Gonor tells GlobeSt.com.