SAN JOSE-Scottsdale, AZ-based SCS Investors are in the ground for a 25-story, 506-room hotel development here scheduled to open its doors in January 2003. Hornberger & Worstell Inc. of San Francisco designed the project.

LIVERMORE, CA-Calpine Corp. is proposing a natural gas plant near here that would supply electricity to more than one million homes in the East Bay and San Joaquin County. The company's proposal to build in San Jose was shot down last month.

LIVERMORE, CA-Calpine Corp. is proposing a natural gas plant near here that would supply electricity to more than one million homes in the East Bay and San Joaquin County. The company's proposal to build in San Jose was shot down last month.

SAN FRANCISCO-Peter Back, formerly director of construction management for SwigBurris Equities, is the new senior vice president. Bradford Tardy, most recently senior project manager for Charles Pankow Builders Ltd., is the company's new construction manager.

WALNUT CREEK, CA-The Boston-based developer has started construction on a third office complex here. The $50-million Three Ygnacio Center is being built next to One Ygnacio Center and Two Ygnacio Center.

SAN JOSE-Gary Aquilina, an architect and project manager, joins the local office of the commercial real estate services firm as a principal. Aquilina, who has 20 years of experience in the industry, will oversee the company's project management group.

LIVERMORE, CA-Cybeq Systems will lease 28,135-sf in the Livermore Business Center for its new headquarters. The company is moving from 52,000-sf in Milpitas.

OAKLAND, CA-The Port of Oakland has sold the last 14 acres of the park to a Woodside-based developer who will construct 240,000-sf of buildings to accommodate office use, research and development and distribution.