A source with Robert Half tells GlobeSt.com the move will allowthe company to consolidate local operations now housed in fiveleased buildings totaling 220,000 sf in Pleasanton, only two ofwhich are located adjacent to each other. Its existing leaseholdsare located within the 854-acre Hacienda Business Park and areleased from Britannia Business Center. There will be little to nooverlap in the lease terms, she says.

The asking rate for office space in San Ramon ranges from $27 to$36 per sf per year. Sunset Development SVP Ed Hagopian declined tospecify the asking rate for Sunset's space but did say they arecareful to be neither the least expensive nor the most expensive inthe market.

The Robert Half lease comes on the heels of several othersmaller office leases at Bishop Ranch in the past 60 days,including a 23,000-sf lease by Chubb Insurance, a 22,000-sf leaseby Edgewood Insurance, a 19,000-sf lease by Del Monte Foods and a12,000-sf lease by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management,which is moving its MBA program there. The leases loweredavailability in the 5 million sf Sunset owns there to approximately10%, Hagopian says, adding that "when that vacancy is spread over40 buildings it's not a lot."