Borelli Restructures By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, June 13, 2006 in the Commercial Real Estate Section, Spaces and Places column. Longtime commercial real estate company Borelli Investment has restructured its management team, freeing Ralph Borelli from day-to-day responsibilities so he can handle land development deals, and making Buddy Parsons president. Borelli, who took over in 1977 for his father, founder Nelo Borelli, remains the CEO. ``We decided that having Ralph micromanaging is not the best use of his time,'' Parsons said. ``He is heavily invested in land … [Read more...]

Driven by Silicon Valley’s seemingly endless high-technology engine, millions of square feet of commercial space were constructed in Silicon Valley in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of this space consisted of large, one or two-story industrial and R&D buildings, built as part of sprawling campuses for high tech manufacturers and fabricators. But over the past decade, a lot of manufacturing jobs have moved elsewhere, to lower-cost areas in Texas, Oregon, or Massachusetts—or overseas. This has left a glut of vacant industrial buildings with functionally obsolete space on the market, with few … [Read more...]