Properties such as The James have recorded near double digit year-over-year rent growth due to the large disparity between rents in downtown and suburbs as renters desire higher-quality units near jobs.

The historic St. Denis hotel will be demolished for ground-up construction, showing how certain developments can face community preservationists' resistance.

Throughout Napa/Solano, the available inventory is mainly older industrial buildings that do not meet e-commerce tenant demand such as clear heights of more than 30 feet, but Dermody's center will be 36 feet.

McCarthy Cook recently acquired Dropbox-anchored Castro Station, a three-building class-A office campus totaling 114,809 square feet in downtown for $179.7 million or $1,565 per square foot.