San Jose and San Francisco are among the top-10 jobs-producing metropolitan areas in the country today based on their employment growth rates over the last 12 months, the brokerage finds. Together with the Oakland metropolitan area, the region is growing on the order of 100,000 jobs a year and should maintain that pace for the next several years, Hessam Nadji, Marcus’ managing director of Research and Advisory Services, said. Read the full story at The Registry.       … [Read more...]

As much effort as has been expended to explain the San Francisco workplace revolution, Silicon Valley workspace is in a jumble, too. Five of the valley’s most important companies have announced large, expensive new campuses. On their face, the decisions—by Apple, Google, Facebook, Nvidia and Samsung—make two statements: Companies don’t expect to abandon Silicon Valley, but the existing workstock does not meet corporate needs. Silicon Valley with its historic startup and hardware-engineering business culture has specialized in the vanilla office and workplace building. For landlords, the … [Read more...]