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PALO ALTO, CA-GlobeSt.com ran into Andrew Barnes, one of the two new lead brokers in the office, at the firm’s party at ICSC’s RECon2012, who notes that the firm is looking to build that office over the next few years.

OAKLAND, CA-Investors Winthrop Realty Trust and Paulson & Co. have put the Claremont Hotel Club & Spa, a 279-room hotel in Oakland Hills, on the market for sale.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA-SRGNC CRES LLC has filed with the city to reposition and entitle a new campus on 24 acres here.

SAN MATEO, CA-The AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust teams with Sares Regis Group of Northern California to develop 155 luxury apartments here, a project that is expected to create more than 300 union construction jobs.

SAN FRANCISCO-The firm has initiated a series of moves designed to strengthen significantly its delivery of capital-markets solutions to CRE investors in the San Francisco Bay Area.

WALNUT CREEK, CA-The firm has added 17 new team members to cover East San Francisco Bay and one EVP for its Orange County office.

SAN ANSELMO, CA-Among the new hires at TRI Commercial/CORFAC International is Grubb & Ellis’s top Sacramento investment advisor Steve Griffin and five other brokers formerly with G&E.

LOS ANGELES-The firm agrees to pay $90 million for 901 Market St. in San Francisco, and $89 million for the Olympic Bundy Media Campus in West L.A.

SAN FRANCISCO-Union Investment, an investment fund based in Germany, has reached a contract to purchase 555 Mission St. in downtown San Francisco for $445 million.

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SAN FRANCISCO-Cushman & Wakefield has added six veteran brokers from CBRE to expand its investment-sales services in Northern California.

SAN FRANCISCO-Yelp signed a lease for 100,000 square feet at a downtown building here, and Monster Beverage has purchased a building in Corona, CA for a new HQ.

EMERYVILLE, CA-TMG Partners and Essex Property Trust are planning to break ground on a 190-unit apartment building in Emeryville.

SAN FRANCISCO-Macy's has purchased a portion of its flagship store on the West Coast for $115 million.

WALNUT CREEK, CA-John Muir Health will open a new outpatient center in Walnut Creek at the end of 2013.

SANTA ROSA, CA-The foundation and steel framework have been started on the new, 182,300-square-foot Sutter Medical Center, which is replacing the facility originally built in 1938.

SAN FRANCISCO-Grosvenor Suites, a 205-unit high-rise apartment building, sells to Bridge Capital Partners, a unit of Friedkin Realty Group, which plans to reposition the property as luxury apartments.

SAN FRANCISCO-A subsidiary of Oaktree Capital Management LP and Michael Rosenfeld and his company, Woodridge Capital Partners LLC, have completed the acquisition of Fairmont San Francisco Hotel on Nob Hill.

SAN FRANCISCO-A recent sector report from Jones Lang LaSalle shows new tech-oriented submarkets emerging around the US and Canada.

SAN FRANCISCO-The new owners anticipate investing $15 million in upgrades to the historic property.