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Gensler Co-CEO Elizabeth Brink: Conversions Can Revive Downtown Los Angeles, If Leadership Shows Up
Speaking at the UCLA Anderson Forecast Summer 2026 Economic Outlook, Gensler Co-CEO Elizabeth Brink laid out an architect’s case for why experience, not...
Los Angeles Sits Out the AI Office Boom Lifting Bay Area and Manhattan
Tech leasing in Los Angeles grew modestly in 2025 but ranked outside the top tier of tech gateways, as artificial intelligence capital and...
AvalonBay and Equity Residential Forge $69B Apartment Titan in All-Stock Merger of Equals
The combination of the nation’s two largest multifamily REITs creates a 180,000-unit powerhouse with dominant positions in Los Angeles, New York and Greater...
San Diego’s CRE Recovery Accelerates as Office and Industrial Investors Find Positive Leverage Again
LBA Realty and CBRE leaders point to eight straight quarters of office absorption, a thawing industrial capital market and a diversified Southern California...
Swig and Intercontinental Clinch 22,000 SQFT of Leases at 6300 Wilshire as LA Office Market Wobbles
The Class A Miracle Mile tower lands three new tenants and five renewals over five months, defying a Los Angeles office sector grappling...
Apartment Titans AvalonBay and Equity Residential Eye $50B Merger That Could Redraw US Rental Map
The two largest US apartment REITs are in early-stage talks on a combination that would create a roughly 200,000-unit landlord and reignite REIT...
Bay Area Swallows Q1 Venture Capital as Seattle and Los Angeles Fall Further Behind
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI concentrate $221.1 billion in Northern California while Southern California and the Pacific Northwest scrape single-digit billions in a market...
AI Set to Flatten Office Job Growth Through 2030, Pushing U.S. Vacancy to 21.5%, Newmark Finds
A new Newmark research report forecasts that artificial intelligence will moderate office-using employment to near-zero growth over the next five years, reshaping demand...
North American Life Sciences Sector Grapples With Supply Glut as 55% of Recent Lab Deliveries Sit Vacant
A pandemic-era construction wave has collided with cooling demand, leaving nearly 60 million square feet of new lab space struggling to find tenants...
Carmel Partners Closes Fund 9 at $1.35 Billion
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2026 – Carmel Partners (“Carmel”) announced today the final close of Carmel Partners Investment Fund 9, its U.S. multifamily real estate value...
Khanna Enterprises Acquires 469-Room Westin Long Beach for $42MM at Steep Discount
Irvine-based hotel operator picks up downtown convention hotel from Rockpoint and Highgate at roughly half its 2017 price tag Irvine-based Khanna Enterprises has...
Alexandria Sells Three UTC Land Parcels in San Diego for $40MM
Alexandria Real Estate Equities sold three contiguous land parcels at 9363, 9373, and 9393 Towne Centre Drive in San Diego’s University Town Center...
