San Francisco

Prospect Ridge Advisors will be led co-chief investment officers Brahm Cramer and Jay Nydick. Both Cramer and Nydick were most recently partners at AllianceBernstein and founded its US Real Estate Investments group in 2009 and its Commercial Real Estate Debt Group in 2013.

Technology companies are having an ever-increasing impact on US cities, such as local economies and workforce development, physical space, micro-transportation, labor shortage and trade tensions.

Boston Properties and TMG will acquire and develop Platform 16, an urban campus near Diridon Station, which is one of the region's most prominent locations as home to more than 120 technology firms.

Flexible workspaces are in particularly high demand in the San Francisco market as evidenced by Knotel's two new office leases totaling 62,979 square feet that hit the books in recent weeks.

Etkin Johnson acquired the 19 properties, which range in size from 26,078 square feet to 293,510 square feet, between 1990 and 1998. The portfolio was 93% leased at the time of the sale.

The 750,000-square-foot office building at 2201 Valley will include 10,000 square feet of retail and arts spaces, occupying a full city block between Telegraph Avenue, Valley, West Grand Avenue and 22nd Street.