I will share articles, data, tweets, and everything in between each week that I want people interested in Bay Area real estate to read. 

'Game-changing' new park twice the size of Union Square inches closer to reality in San Francisco "A proposed park more than twice the size of Union Square is one step closer to reality in San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza." (SFGate)

Study tells California legislators to declare war on red tape — but will they? "A newly released report from a special legislative committee declares that to deal with housing, homelessness, water supply and climate change issues, California “will need to facilitate new construction at an unprecedented scale. (Cal Matters)

California’s biggest NIMBY city? Look no further than this wealthy Bay Area enclave "California is packed with NIMBY local governments that will do seemingly anything to avoid building new housing. Woodside famously declared itself a mountain lion sanctuary to avoid duplexes. La Cañada Flintridge flirted with bankrupting itself to fight its first multifamily housing project in more than a decade. But Sausalito is making a convincing case that it deserves the trophy for California’s Biggest Housing Troll." (San Francisco Chronicle)

Shvo's Transamerica Pyramid signs Morgan Lewis & Bockius to 123,000-square-foot lease "Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP leased 123,000 square feet at the Transamerica Pyramid, the largest such deal to close in the building under Manhattan developer Shvo’s ownership." (San Francisco Business Times)

Window-frame reform sparks familiar SF feud "However, the reform push has also sparked a backlash from preservationists, adding yet another tricky conundrum for San Francisco to tackle as it tries to balance the sometimes competing goals of improving affordability while also preserving The City’s historical character." (SF Examiner) 

Homegrown record producer purchases long-vacant downtown SF building "In a surprising move that underscores the bargain-bin discounts in the city’s real estate market, Empire, a record label founded in San Francisco, has purchased One Montgomery, a long-vacant historic building in the Financial District. Real estate sources confirmed the deal for the nearly 100,000-square-foot property, which closed this week, and tagged the sale price at around $250 per foot, or in the low $20 million range. That’s a more than 60% haircut from the last time the building was sold, in 2019." (The San Francisco Standard)