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		<title>Right here’s Why Extra Company Campuses Are Getting Warehouse Conversions</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Als der Versicherungsriese Nationwide eines seiner Unternehmenszentren in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, räumte, um 2019 eine Renovierung im Wert von 20 Millionen US-Dollar einzuleiten, gab es keinen Hinweis darauf, dass das Projekt mit einer plötzlichen Verschlechterung des globalen Büromarkts zusammenfallen würde. Spulen Sie fast vier Jahre vor, und das Unternehmen ist ungefähr 50 Hektar großen Campus in &#8230;</p>
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<p>Als der Versicherungsriese Nationwide eines seiner Unternehmenszentren in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, räumte, um 2019 eine Renovierung im Wert von 20 Millionen US-Dollar einzuleiten, gab es keinen Hinweis darauf, dass das Projekt mit einer plötzlichen Verschlechterung des globalen Büromarkts zusammenfallen würde.</p>
<p>Spulen Sie fast vier Jahre vor, und das Unternehmen ist ungefähr <span class="Enhancement"><span class="Enhancement-item">50 Hektar großen Campus</span></span>  in einem Vorort von Philadelphia wird nun zu einem Industriekomplex umgebaut.  Es ist eines von einer wachsenden Zahl von Konversionsprojekten in ehemals hochrangigen Büromärkten, da die Nachfrage nach Lager- und Logistikflächen die nach traditionellen Büroimmobilien bei weitem übersteigt. </p>
<p>Entwickler in den Vereinigten Staaten, in so unterschiedlichen Regionen wie der San Francisco Bay Area und dem Großraum Chicago, profitieren von pandemiebedingten Verschiebungen, die dazu geführt haben, dass dank der steigenden Nachfrage und der steigenden Preise für Industriebüros Hunderte Millionen Quadratfuß leer stehen Immobilien, sind jetzt finanziell machbar, um in Logistikflächen in Märkten umgebaut zu werden, die noch vor wenigen Jahren nicht praktikabel waren.</p>
<p>Anders gesagt, obwohl hohe Zinssätze gewerbliche Immobiliengeschäfte teurer gemacht haben, waren Entwickler bereit, die Kosten für industrielle Umbauten zu übernehmen.  Dies ist einer Kombination aus hohen Mieten und dem Potenzial zu verdanken, ihre Investition mit einem höheren Verkaufspreis zu beenden, der die gestiegenen Bewertungen für Logistikimmobilien widerspiegelt.</p>
<p>Dermody Properties begann letztes Jahr mit dem Abriss ehemaliger Allstate-Bürogebäude in den nördlichen Vororten von Chicago und ersetzte sie durch neue Logistiklager.  (Dermody-Eigenschaften)</p>
<p>„Wir können diese Deals jetzt aufgrund der Beschleunigung der Industriemieten, insbesondere für High-End-Industrie- und Flex-Flächen, mit Bleistift abschließen“, sagte Zach Moore, Gründungspartner von Velocity Ventures, gegenüber CoStar News.  „Es gibt eine große Preisbewegung, die die Gelegenheit vorantreibt, was vorher nie möglich war.“ </p>
<p>Während noch viele Entwicklungs- und Gesetzeshindernisse zu überwinden sind, hat die Umwandlung von Büros in Industrieunternehmen in den letzten Jahren an Dynamik gewonnen, da pandemiebedingte Verlagerungen zur Fernarbeit – und jetzt Entlassungen – die Büronachfrage verringern.  Dies ist darauf zurückzuführen, dass die weit verbreitete Immobilienkonsolidierung und der Wunsch nach höherwertigen Gebäuden die Veralterung einiger älterer, weitläufiger Büroimmobilien mit weniger Annehmlichkeiten beschleunigt haben.</p>
<p>Laut Daten von Newmark und CoStar werden derzeit mehr als 15,2 Millionen Quadratfuß Bürofläche in Logistiknutzung umgewandelt.  Das meiste davon konzentriert sich auf Märkte, in denen Dichte und Landbeschränkungen die Nachfrage nach Industrieflächen höher getrieben haben als in den Jahren vor der Pandemie.</p>
<p>Aber dieser Trend steckt noch in den Kinderschuhen, und nicht alle lokalen Beamten sind interessiert, wenn sie von einem Vorschlag für gewerbliches Eigentum für ein Wohngebiet hören. </p>
<p>Wenn es um die zunehmende Zahl von Büro-zu-Industrie-Umwandlungen geht, „ist der Trend immer noch relativ nischenhaft, aber insgesamt ist Industrie eine der begehrtesten Immobilienklassen, und die Nachfrage hat sich im Vergleich zu anderen Anlageklassen gehalten.“ sagte Liz Berthelette, Forschungsdirektorin von Newmark.</p>
<p>Sie fügte hinzu: „Dies wird sich noch weiter in Märkten auswirken, in denen Büroleerstände zugenommen haben, insbesondere in Küsten- oder dicht besiedelten Märkten, in denen die Entwicklung schwieriger ist und Land relativ knapp und teuer ist.  Viele dieser Büroimmobilien werden funktional obsoleter, was sie für industrielle Entwickler attraktiver macht.“</p>
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<p>Einer dieser Entwickler ist das nationale Industrieimmobilienunternehmen Dermody Properties, ein in Reno, Nevada, ansässiges Unternehmen, das erwartet, Hunderte Millionen Dollar auszugeben, um ungenutzte Bürocampusse von Unternehmen wie dem Technologieriesen Amazon und dem Versicherer Allstate zu erwerben, um sie in nachfragestärkere umzuwandeln Lagerraum.</p>
<p>Das Unternehmen – das dabei hilft, die Investitionen zur Umwandlung von Büros in Industriegebäude zu legitimieren – durchkämmt das Land nach ähnlichen Deals, die es in den Gebieten von Chicago und San Francisco abgeschlossen hat, während potenzielle Lagermieter nach Räumen suchen, die näher an den Häusern der Kunden liegen. </p>
<p>Dermody <span class="Enhancement"><span class="Enhancement-item">zahlte letztes Jahr mehr als 230 Millionen Dollar</span></span>  den weitläufigen Hauptsitz von Allstate in den nördlichen Vororten von Chicago zu erwerben, wo bereits Bürogebäude aus den 1960er und 70er Jahren abgerissen und durch mehr als 3,2 Millionen Quadratfuß Logistikfläche ersetzt werden.  Es bereitet sich auch darauf vor, einen Deal mit Amazon für einen Bürocampus in Milpitas, Kalifornien, abzuschließen, den der Einzelhändler kürzlich erworben, aber nie bezogen hat. </p>
<p>„Dies ist ein beispielloses Gebiet für uns, wenn wir glauben, dass Standorte wie der Allstate-Campus für uns im Spiel sind“, sagte Doug Kiersey, President und CEO von Dermody, gegenüber CoStar News.  „Das ist ein ganz neues Phänomen.  Es wird durch die beiden säkularen Veränderungen angetrieben, wie wir von zu Hause aus einkaufen und arbeiten.  Vor der Pandemie war mir bei einem Standort wie dem Allstate-Standort in den 10.000 Malen, die ich an diesem Campus vorbeigefahren war, nie in den Sinn gekommen, dass er für die Logistikentwicklung verfügbar sein könnte.“</p>
<p>Wenn die höchste und beste Nutzung eines Standorts industriell wird, bedeutet dies manchmal die Umnutzung bestehender Bürogebäude in solche, die leichte industrielle Nutzungen ermöglichen, während es manchmal bedeuten könnte, dass das Grundstück vollständig abgerissen wird, um aus dem Land und seiner Lage Kapital zu schlagen. </p>
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<p>Der President und CEO von Dermody Properties, Doug Kiersey, sprach im Oktober bei einer Grundsteinlegungszeremonie in Glenview, Illinois, wo das Unternehmen den ehemaligen Firmencampus von Allstate in einen Logistikstandort umwandelt.  (Dermody-Eigenschaften)</p>
<p>Im Silicon-Valley-Vorort Milpitas zum Beispiel ist das jährliche Mietwachstum für Büroflächen laut CoStar-Daten im vergangenen Jahr um etwa 2,5 % gesunken.  Im Vergleich dazu steigt das jährliche Mietwachstum für Industrieimmobilien weiter an, wobei die Raten im vergangenen Jahr um etwa 8 % gestiegen sind. </p>
<p>Laut CoStar-Daten hat das jährliche Wachstum der Industriemieten landesweit 10,5 % überschritten.  Und da das Leasingvolumen immer noch beispiellose Höhen erreicht, setzen Industrieentwickler und Vermieter darauf, dass es noch viel Raum für Wachstum gibt.</p>
<p>„Es ist wirklich eine Geschichte aus zwei Welten“, sagte Tony Grelli, Mitbegründer von Velocity.  „Man hört all das Unheil und die Finsternis über die Finanzmärkte, aber dann spricht man mit unseren Mietern und der überwiegenden Mehrheit von ihnen geht es besser als je zuvor.  Am Ende des Tages ist die industrielle Nachfrage immer noch da – lange, lange, lange Piste, um weiter steigen zu können.“</p>
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<p>Die Preisdynamik für den Industrieneubau hat lange Zeit eine Entwicklung von Grund auf begünstigt.  Die verstärkte Nachfrage – gepaart mit dem sich auflösenden Mietwachstum auf den meisten großen Büromärkten – hat jedoch dazu geführt, dass dies nicht mehr der Fall ist. </p>
<p>„Wir sind heute in der Lage, ein leerstehendes Bürogebäude für einen vergleichbaren oder günstigeren Betrag zu kaufen, um ein Rohbau-Industriegebäude zu bauen“, sagte Moore von Velocity.  „Die meisten unserer Konkurrenten müssen, um ein neues Produkt zu bauen, das Land kaufen, es berechtigen, das Projekt bauen und es dann stabilisieren, was etwa 24 bis 36 Monate dauern kann.  Bei Umnutzungen können wir ehemalige Bürogebäude identifizieren und einen sechs- bis neunmonatigen Sanierungsprozess durchlaufen.  Das ist einer der Gründe, warum wir es tun, weil es unglaublich schnell ist.“</p>
<p>In den letzten Jahren wurden Pläne entwickelt, hochkarätige Bürocampusse in neue industrielle Nutzungen umzuwandeln, und zwar an Standorten, an denen zuvor Unternehmen wie z <span class="Enhancement"><span class="Enhancement-item">Novartis</span></span>  Und <span class="Enhancement"><span class="Enhancement-item">Spielzeug R Us</span></span>  in New Jersey sowie ein Unternehmen für medizinische Produkte <span class="Enhancement"><span class="Enhancement-item">Baxter International in Deerfield, Illinois.</span></span> </p>
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<p>Der Prozess der Umwandlung ehemaliger Büros in neue industrielle Nutzungen umfasst das Entfernen niedrigerer Decken und Einbauten, wie die auf dem ehemaligen Campus von Nationwide in Harleysville, Pennsylvania.  (Matt Stanley)</p>
<p>Laut Untersuchungen von Prologis, einem der weltweit größten Industrieentwickler und -vermieter, könnten Büro-zu-Logistik-Umbauten bis zu 80 Millionen Quadratfuß zukünftiger Industriefläche ausmachen.  Lager- und Vertriebsimmobilien erfordern jedoch Standorte mit 8 oder mehr Hektar Land, eine Spezifikation, die einen erheblichen Teil potenzieller Umwandlungen ausschließt. </p>
<p>Laut Daten von CoStar und Prologis umfassen etwa 27.000 Bürogebäude in den USA oder etwa 1,2 Milliarden Quadratfuß an Erdgeschossimmobilien das Land, das erforderlich ist, um sie in potenzielle logistische Nutzungen umzuwandeln. </p>
<p>Über den Standort hinaus umfassen bestehende Büroimmobilien in der Regel Infrastruktur und Einrichtungen, die für eine zukünftige industrielle Nutzung umfunktioniert werden können, sagte Moore.  Sicher, die Zwischengeschosse im zweiten Stock und andere Merkmale einer alternden Büroimmobilie müssen entfernt werden, aber die Beibehaltung von Merkmalen wie Abwasserleitungen, Strom, Gas und Sanitäranlagen kann noch mehr Zeit und Geld sparen.</p>
<p>„Der Bau einer Industriebox ist eine Sache, aber der Bau mit allen vorhandenen Systemen ist exponentiell teurer“, sagte der Velocity-Partner. </p>
<p>Die steigende Zahl von Logistikumbauprojekten im vergangenen Jahr sei „bedeutsam zu beachten“, sagte Berthelette von Newmark und fügte hinzu, dass das Aufkommen der Last-Mile-Distribution ein wichtiger Katalysator für Entwickler gewesen sei, die von der Nachfrage in großen Küstenmärkten mit Hochland profitieren wollen Werte und anderweitig begrenztes industrielles Angebot.</p>
<p>Was Standorte in der Nähe von großen Häfen, Verkehrsadern und wohlhabenden Märkten mit viel Anbaufläche betrifft, so „war die beste und höchste Nutzung an einigen dieser Standorte vor 10 bis 15 Jahren Büro oder Wohnen, aber jetzt ist es der Vertrieb.“</p>
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<p>Die Wirtschaftlichkeit von Büro-zu-Industrie-Umwandlungen verschiebt sich zugunsten von Entwicklern, aber die Realität, lokale Kommunen und Gemeinden zu überzeugen, bleibt eine Herausforderung. </p>
<p>Entwickler wie Velocity und Dermody haben sich mit Problemen wie Zoneneinteilung und Komplikationen bei der Berechtigung sowie mit Regierungsbeamten befasst, die besorgt sind, das Prestige eines Fortune-500-Hauptquartiers zu verlieren.  Trotzdem ihre Bereitschaft, diese zu ertragen <span class="Enhancement"><span class="Enhancement-item">möglicherweise verlängerte Herausforderungen</span></span>  ist ein weiterer Beleg für die historisch hohe Nachfrage nach gewerblichen Immobilien. </p>
<p>„Es geht nicht darum, diese Kommunen zu überzeugen, es geht vielmehr darum, sie darüber aufzuklären, was mit Gewerbeimmobilien passiert, und sie durch die Veränderungen bei der Büro- und Industrienachfrage zu führen“, sagte Moore. </p>
<p>Das kann bedeuten, dass kleinere Logistikunternehmen und andere Mieter bereit sind, einen Aufpreis für Flächen zu zahlen, um mit größeren industriellen Nutzern konkurrieren zu können, wenn es um die Entwicklung von Immobilien für fortschrittliche Fertigungsunternehmen geht, fügte er hinzu.</p>
<p>„Die meisten Stadtbeamten erkennen dann, dass sie etwas tun müssen, weil das Büro nicht mehr so ​​zurückkommt wie früher.  Wir sagen ihnen, dass diese großen, leerstehenden Büroimmobilien zu problematischen Vermögenswerten werden, und die beste Gelegenheit für den heutigen Standort, der die geringsten Auswirkungen auf die Nachbarschaft haben wird, besteht darin, ihn in eine hochwertige Industrieanlage umzuwandeln“, sagte Moore. </p>
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<p>Langjährige Bürogebäude auf dem Campus des ehemaligen Hauptsitzes von Allstate begannen im vergangenen Jahr mit dem Abriss, als der Industrieentwickler Dermody Properties den 232 Hektar großen Campus in ein Distributionszentrum für die letzte Meile umwandelte.  (Dermody-Eigenschaften)</p>
<p>Kiersey von Dermody sagte, dass sich die Firma vor Beginn eines Umbauprojekts mit örtlichen Beamten trifft, um zu sehen, ob sie für eine neue Verwendung empfänglich sind.  Dies spricht dafür, dass eine Logistikanlage weniger Verkehr erzeugt als ein Bürocampus bei Spitzenauslastung, sagte Kiersey und fügte hinzu, dass Industrieprojekte im Gegensatz zu Wohnsiedlungen keine Bedenken hinsichtlich einer Überlastung lokaler Schulen mit neuen Studenten aufwerfen.</p>
<p>„Sie wollen sich einer Gemeinschaft nicht aufdrängen“, sagte Kiersey.  &#8220;Du willst dorthin gehen, wo du gesucht wirst.&#8221;</p>
<p>Die nationale Industrienachfrage hat sich von ihrem früheren Rekordtempo abgeschwächt, da ein Zusammenfluss makroökonomischer Faktoren wie Zinssätze, hohe Baukosten und Bedenken hinsichtlich des Verbrauchervertrauens Immobiliengeschäfte erschwert haben.  Trotzdem sagte Kiersey, er bleibe zuversichtlich in Projekte wie den Umbau des Allstate-Campus und gehe davon aus, einige Mietverträge in der Hand zu haben, bevor die erste spekulative Bauphase abgeschlossen werde. </p>
<p>Außerdem ist er immer noch auf der Suche nach zukünftigen Deals.  An manchen Tagen bedeutet das, durch ganze Büromärkte zu fahren und nach veralteten Gebäuden zu suchen, die auf großen Grundstücken stehen, „wo man weiß, dass der Standort tot mehr wert ist als lebendig“. </p>
<p>Kiersey scherzte: „Ich vergleiche es mit Schweinen, die im Wald Trüffel erschnüffeln.  Wir sind so etwas wie Trüffeljäger, die nach etwas Wertvollem suchen, nach diesem Fünf-Pfund-Trüffel.“</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Benicia resident Peter Bray rose to some notoriety after one of his songs, &#8220;Laid Off American Man,&#8221; was featured in a Herb Caen column. Bray wrote the song in 1994 after being fired from Bechtel. BENICIA >> 20 years ago, Peter Bray left the corporate world with a song in his heart. It brought him &#8230;</p>
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<p>					Benicia resident Peter Bray rose to some notoriety after one of his songs, &#8220;Laid Off American Man,&#8221; was featured in a Herb Caen column.  Bray wrote the song in 1994 after being fired from Bechtel.
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<p>BENICIA >> 20 years ago, Peter Bray left the corporate world with a song in his heart.  It brought him a ton of fame.</p>
<p>Yes, the longtime Benician wrote and recorded a song after being fired from Bechtel.  It was titled &#8220;American Man Fired&#8221;.  He sent a cassette copy to legendary San Francisco Chronicle gossip columnist Herb Caen, who reprinted the lyrics and called Bray &#8220;my hero today.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He gave me the top six inches of it,&#8221; said Bray, a cheerful handyman and regular of the Benicia poetry group.</p>
<p>there is more  Within a week, Bray said he received a postcard from well-known folksinger Pete Seeger in upstate New York that read, &#8220;I&#8217;ve just read Herb Caen.  How can I get a copy of your song?&#8221; I thought, &#8220;How cool!&#8221;</p>
<p>Two weeks later, Bray received another message in the mail from Seeger asking for a second copy. </p>
<p>&#8220;I was like, &#8216;Okay, he liked it, he sends it to Arlo Guthrie, Arlo records it and I&#8217;m free at home!  I&#8217;m rich and fat and famous!&#8221; &#8220;</p>
<p>Alas, &#8220;It didn&#8217;t happen,&#8221; giggled Bray.  &#8220;It&#8217;s fun, but I fix toilets.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bray, 71, still enjoys poetry and songwriting.  He&#8217;s been at it for more than 40 years, filling scraps of paper &#8211; and later notebooks &#8211; with rhymes about his children and other things that piqued his interest.  He still performs at open mics, where he uses humor to connect with listeners.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you can get the whole room to shut up and go quiet because you&#8217;re &#8216;really speaking in a low voice and bring it up&#8217;, you can get the whole gathering of 30 people to move with you &#8216; Bray said.  who has self-published three volumes of poetry since 1972.  &#8220;And they slide in something funny and make the same 30 people laugh, that&#8217;s just a kick in the butt!&#8221;</p>
<p>A native of Walnut Creek, Bray earned a master&#8217;s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966.  He worked in the defense industry for a number of years designing missiles before becoming a freelance designer and graphic artist.  Eventually he got a job at Bechtel in San Francisco, where he was a graphics manager.  After 10 years he was fired during a major downscaling.</p>
<p>&#8220;So I wrote Laid Off American Man,&#8221; said Bray, who has been involved with poetry since the early &#8217;70s.  The song begins like this: &#8220;I make windows, I make floors, I make hallways, I make doors, I do everything I can, I&#8217;m a fired American!&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;I had a cassette, I had a cover and I sent it to Herb Caen,&#8221; Bray said.  &#8220;And about a week later I called one of my designers (at Bechtel) after I was gone and said, &#8216;Hey, how&#8217;s it going?&#8217; He said, &#8216;PR&#8217;s on alert.&#8217; I said, &#8216;What are you talking about ?&#8221;  He said: &#8216;You didn&#8217;t see Herb Caen this morning?  You better.&#8221; So I went down to Raley&#8217;s and got the Chronicle, opened it up and it put all my lyrics in it.&#8221;</p>
<p>The last verses read: “I was the executive vice president of BD, with a mission statement and a cell phone, a company watch and a company loan, I was a vice president in charge of BD.  Now I&#8217;m a gardener in the promised land, all my tools are in a one man van, now I make windows, I make floors, I make hallways, I make doors, do everything I can, I&#8217;m a laid-off American !” </p>
<p>Not everything Bray writes or performs is funny.  &#8220;Weeping at Starbucks&#8221; conveys his pain in the hours after his daughter&#8217;s death from Crohn&#8217;s disease in February 2012. Here we go: &#8220;After house coffee and apple sales and ten thousand messages of condolence via email, cell phone, cards and letters, it boils down to this to cry at Starbucks while the soft chatter and overheard music compete.</p>
<p>What drives his creativity?  &#8220;It&#8217;s therapeutic for me and it&#8217;s self-sustaining,&#8221; Bray said.  &#8220;And maybe&#8230; it&#8217;ll be helpful to someone else.&#8221;</p>
<p>Contact Tony Burchyns at 707-553-6831. </p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Outside the tallest tower in San Francisco. Photo: Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images To lure businesses to ailing downtown San Francisco, officials are calling for a change in corporate taxation. The big picture: The city has long had high corporate taxes, but companies still flock here for access to talent, venture capital &#8230;</p>
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<p>To lure businesses to ailing downtown San Francisco, officials are calling for a change in corporate taxation.</p>
<p><strong>The big picture:</strong> The city has long had high corporate taxes, but companies still flock here for access to talent, venture capital and the &#8220;seal of approval of being in San Francisco,&#8221; Jeff Bellisario, executive director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, told Axios.</p>
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<li>But with the rise of remote work amid the pandemic, more companies are &#8220;reconsidering their physical footprint&#8221; and evaluating their &#8220;cost of doing business,&#8221; which includes local taxes, Bellisario said.</li>
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<p><strong>Why it matters:</strong> Some companies, like Meta, are downsizing their San Francisco footprint, while others, like Coinbase, have gone entirely.</p>
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<li>Today, over 25% of San Francisco&#8217;s office space is vacant.</li>
<li>The city faces a potential deficit of $728 million over the next two fiscal years, due in part to lower-than-expected property tax receipts.</li>
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<p><strong>Details:</strong> Mayor London Breed&#8217;s recently unveiled plan to revitalize downtown San Francisco provides tax incentives of up to $1 million over three years for companies opening new offices here.</p>
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<li>For more permanent changes, the mayor also called on the city&#8217;s controller and treasurer to develop a possible tax reform measure, for residents to vote on in 2024, that would &#8220;allow San Francisco to better compete with its peer cities when it comes to it.&#8221; to attract new businesses,” the mayor said in a press release.</li>
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<p><strong>Using the numbers: </strong>A San Francisco tech company with 250 employees and total revenues of $750 million would pay about $10.4 million in local taxes, according to analysis released this month by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.</p>
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<li>The same hypothetical company would pay just over $4 million in Oakland and $2.7 million in Berkeley.</li>
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<li>It would pay around $50,000 annually in South San Francisco and $17,118 in San Jose.</li>
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<p><strong>What you say:</strong> “Cities that consider themselves business-friendly want these taxes to be as low as possible because they can use that as a selling point when trying to attract businesses from across the country or companies moving out of San Francisco,” said Bellisario.</p>
<p><strong>In the meantime, </strong>Supervisor Dean Preston said he was disappointed with Breed&#8217;s plan, which he says &#8220;prioritizes tax payments to big corporations.&#8221; </p>
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<li>Instead, Preston wants the city to focus on &#8220;neighborly small businesses, much-needed affordable housing, and a functioning public transportation system.&#8221;</li>
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<p><strong>What&#8217;s next:</strong> The board of directors must approve any short-term tax breaks proposed by the mayor.</p>
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<li>Supervisor Aaron Peskin told the SF Business Times what the 2024 tax measure might look like: &#8220;Let&#8217;s see where our economy goes.&#8221;</li>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>FOSTER CITY, Calif.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Bailard announced today that it has been ranked in the San Francisco Business Times&#8217; 2022 Top 100 Bay Area Corporate Philanthropists List. The Corporate Philanthropy program celebrates the Bay Area&#8217;s most generous corporate citizens and recognizes those companies that also give their time, talent, and resources to their community. Bailard&#8217;s ranking among &#8230;</p>
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<p>FOSTER CITY, Calif.&#8211;(<span itemprop="provider publisher copyrightHolder" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization" itemid="https://www.businesswire.com"><span itemprop="name">BUSINESS WIRE</span></span>)&#8211;Bailard announced today that it has been ranked in the San Francisco Business Times&#8217; 2022 Top 100 Bay Area Corporate Philanthropists List.  The Corporate Philanthropy program celebrates the Bay Area&#8217;s most generous corporate citizens and recognizes those companies that also give their time, talent, and resources to their community.
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<p>Bailard&#8217;s ranking among the top corporate philanthropists—joining firms like Google and Genentech—is yet another proof point for the firm&#8217;s robust approach to corporate governance and responsibility.  Bailard is values-driven, and fiercely committed to its core tenets of accountability, compassion, courage, excellence, fairness, and independence.  These values ​​relate not only to client service but also to the firm&#8217;s fundamental business practices, employee experience, and its commitment to the community.
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<p>“Bailard&#8217;s generosity helps to raise the bar on corporate philanthropy and inspires more giving,” said Mary Huss, Publisher of the San Francisco Business Times.  “Their participation in this program helps challenge others to do more.”
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<p>The annual list from the San Francisco Business Times recognizes the 100 top corporate philanthropists ranked by local cash giving.  It includes for-profit companies and nonprofit health care organizations that made contributions to Bay Area-based charitable organizations in the following counties: San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.
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<p>&#8220;In my role, I am consistently in awe of our team&#8217;s commitment to supporting our community, and their ability to find ways to give back to those in need,&#8221; said Chief Executive Officer, Sonya Mughal, CFA.  &#8220;In addition to monetary contributions, our team also has a passion for volunteering as well as supporting our clients&#8217; philanthropic goals.&#8221;
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<p>This recognition builds on the firm&#8217;s commitment to the Bailard Foundation, which recently released its annual update reporting on the Foundation&#8217;s service to Bailard&#8217;s community and its values.
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<p>About Bailard, Inc.
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<p>Founded in 1969, Bailard is an independent asset and wealth management firm serving individuals, families, and institutions alike.  Bailard has built a long‐term asset management track record across domestic and international equities, fixed income, and private real estate, as well as robust, in‐house ESG expertise.  Through it all—and in line with its core principles and strong ESG mindset—Bailard works with clients to align their financial goals with their values.  With $5.0 billion in assets under management as of 6/30/2022, Bailard is a majority employee-owned and women-led firm, and a Principles of Responsible Investing (PRI) signatory.  A values‐driven firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bailard has its own private charitable foundation and is deeply committed to its core values ​​of accountability, compassion, courage, excellence, fairness, and independence.
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<p>ABOUT THE CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY AWARDS:
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<p>For 22 years the San Francisco Business Times has published the Corporate Philanthropists List.  The list features 100 top corporate philanthropists in the Bay Area ranked by local cash giving.  Each year the list is unveiled at the San Francisco Business Times&#8217; Corporate Philanthropy Awards event.  The Corporate Philanthropy Awards program was founded in partnership with Northern California Grantmakers.  A portion of the proceeds goes to NCG to fund the Corporate Philanthropy Institute, with the mission to educate more companies about effective giving and best philanthropy practices.  The aim is to honor those who give the most and in doing so to help raise the bar and inspire more giving.  This achievement does not evaluate the quality of services provided to clients and is not indicative of Bailard&#8217;s future performance.  All for-profit companies &#8211; whether public or private &#8211; along with nonprofit health care organizations were eligible.  Companies were required to provide a detailed breakdown of philanthropic contributions.  This list ranks companies by dollar value of cash contributions made to Bay Area-based charities in the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.  100 firms appeared in the San Francisco Business Times list.  Bailard ranked #82.  There was no fee to enter.  See the ranking list here.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>PALO ALTO, Calif., March 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &#038; Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Colin Conklin has joined the firm&#8217;s corporate practice as a partner in the san francisco office. His addition bolsters Wilson Sonsini&#8217;s private and public company &#8230;</p>
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<p><span class="xn-location">PALO ALTO, Calif.</span>, <span class="xn-chron">March 2, 2022</span> /PRNewswire/ &#8212; <span class="xn-person">Wilson Sonsini Goodrich</span> &#038; Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that <span class="xn-person">Colin Conklin</span> has joined the firm&#8217;s corporate practice as a partner in the <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span> office.  His addition bolsters Wilson Sonsini&#8217;s private and public company and transactional experience.</p>
<p>Conklin&#8217;s practice focuses on late-stage private company representation, capital transactions, and public company representation for companies in the technology and life sciences sectors.</p>
<p>&#8220;Innovative private and public companies in technology and life sciences sectors need sophisticated legal advice to help them manage unique challenges,&#8221; said <span class="xn-person">Doug Clark</span>, managing partner at Wilson Sonsini.  &#8220;The transactional experience and skills that Colin has amassed during his career are exactly what growing and established clients value, and we&#8217;re pleased to welcome Colin to what is already a formidable private and public company team.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wilson Sonsini has more than 300 public company clients and a sterling reputation as an advisor to corporations, boards of directors, and board committees.  The firm&#8217;s attorneys advise on core corporate and securities law matters, including reporting and disclosure requirements (SEC, NYSE, and NASDAQ), audit and compensation committee matters, and compliance with corporate governance statutes, including Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, and Delaware General Corporate Law.  The firm also represents public companies in regulatory and litigation matters, as well as internal and board investigations.  Since 2003, directors of publicly traded US corporations have consistently ranked Wilson Sonsini among the nation&#8217;s top law firms, according to the annual survey conducted by Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting.</p>
<p>Before joining Wilson Sonsini, Conklin worked as a partner in the <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span> office of <span class="xn-person">Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin</span> &#038; Hachigian LLP.  He joined Gunderson as an associate in 2016 and became partner in <span class="xn-chron">Jan 2021</span>.  His prior experience also includes working as a corporate and securities associate in the <span class="xn-location">Palo Alto</span> office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am excited to join Wilson Sonsini, with its established brand of building and advising successful companies, including scores of clients that became public companies in prominent transactions,&#8221; said Conklin.  &#8220;Wilson Sonsini has such an impressive and diverse range of interesting and innovative clients in the Bay Area and nationally. I look forward to working with the talented team in <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span> and collaborating with colleagues across the firm.&#8221;</p>
<p>Conklin earned his JD from the <span class="xn-org">University of California, Hastings College of the Law</span> in 2012, and received his BA in political science from the <span class="xn-org">University of California, Berkeley</span>.  He is admitted to practice in <span class="xn-location">California</span>.</p>
<p>About <span class="xn-person">Wilson Sonsini Goodrich</span> &#038; Rosati<br class="dnr"/>For more than 60 years, Wilson Sonsini&#8217;s services and legal disciplines have focused on serving the principal challenges faced by the management and boards of directors of business enterprises.  The firm is nationally recognized as a leading provider to growing and established clients seeking legal counsel to complete sophisticated corporate and technology transactions;  manage governance and enterprise-scale matters;  assist with intellectual property development, protection, and IP-driven transactions;  represent them in contested disputes;  and/or advise them on antitrust or other regulatory matters.  With deep roots in Silicon Valley, Wilson Sonsini has offices in <span class="xn-location">austin</span>; <span class="xn-location">Beijing</span>; <span class="xn-location">Boston</span>;  boulders; <span class="xn-location">Brussels</span>; <span class="xn-location">Hong Kong</span>; <span class="xn-location">London</span>; <span class="xn-location">Los Angeles</span>; <span class="xn-location">new York</span>; <span class="xn-location">Palo Alto</span>; <span class="xn-location">Salt Lake City</span>; <span class="xn-location">San Diego</span>; <span class="xn-location">san francisco</span>; <span class="xn-location">Seattle</span>; <span class="xn-location">Shanghai</span>; <span class="xn-location">Washington, D.C</span>;  other <span class="xn-location">Wilmington, DE.</span> For more information, please visit www.wsgr.com.</p>
<p>SOURCE <span class="xn-person">Wilson Sonsini Goodrich</span> &#038; Rosati</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A partnership made possible by a $ 1 million company contribution to enable the construction of new accessory housing units has been enthusiastically received by officials from South San Francisco. The South San Francisco City Council on Wednesday, April 28, unanimously approved a proposal to spend the $ 1 million Genentech paid to Hello Housing &#8230;</p>
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<p>A partnership made possible by a $ 1 million company contribution to enable the construction of new accessory housing units has been enthusiastically received by officials from South San Francisco.</p>
<p>The South San Francisco City Council on Wednesday, April 28, unanimously approved a proposal to spend the $ 1 million Genentech paid to Hello Housing to expand access to the units.</p>
<p>The payment from Genentech is part of $ 30 million in commercial connectivity fees, in part to allay concerns that the biotech titan&#8217;s plan to expand its campus will drive up the cost of living.</p>
<p>Vice Mayor Mark Nagales praised the contribution and the resulting partnership with Hello Housing as evidence of Genentech&#8217;s commitment to being a good neighbor.</p>
<p>&#8220;When they are here, they have people interested in living here and they need to be part of the solution to provide the lack of medium and affordable housing,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>In particular, Councilor Flor Nicholas expressed her appreciation for the service offered by Hello Housing.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a really good program,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Councilor Eddie Flores agreed</p>
<p>&#8220;I think this is a really great initiative and I&#8217;m really excited about it,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Hello Housing will effectively act as a project manager for single family home owners in South San Francisco interested in building an additional housing unit on their property.</p>
<p>The company will determine if prospective applicants are allowed to demonstrate design options, walk them through the permit process, introduce them to builders, oversee construction, provide training services to landlords, and more.</p>
<p>The program is designed to serve single family homeowners in South San Francisco who have the real estate available to build and the resources to fund the project.</p>
<p>Landowners with more than one rental property are excluded from participation as they are designed to provide targeted support to those who are not familiar with the concept.</p>
<p>But those who live in the single family home where an ADU is being considered, or small independent landlords with another rental property, are encouraged to participate.</p>
<p>Participants must first agree to rent the new unit, although there are no restrictions on the tenants, who can be friends, family, or co-workers.  And the landlord could choose to live in the new unit and also list the main apartment for rent.</p>
<p>The new unit may not be listed as a short term rental or sold separately from the main residence.  And if a junior unit is built under the program, the property must be inhabited by the owner.</p>
<p>An additional residential unit is usually a free-standing unit with a bathroom, kitchen and independent entrance that shares a plot of land with the main residence.  A junior accessory unit is usually smaller, with no bathroom and an independent entrance attached to the main apartment.</p>
<p>According to Hello Housing, building the units may reduce displacements from rising cost of living by helping meet demand for housing in South San Francisco.  In addition, the units can help families grow together on the same property or provide an independent, safe way of life for an aging relative.</p>
<p>The program could allow 30 to 40 additional housing units to be built in the first year, with plans to build on the success in the years to come.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it just has a lot of advantages,&#8221; said Mayor Mark Addiego.</p>
<p>In other business areas, council members unanimously approved the establishment of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Center at 366 Grand Ave.  at the former US Bank location in the city center.</p>
<p>South San Francisco plans to spend up to $ 2 million on the program, and district officials have offered an initial investment of $ 200,000.  The money will be used to set up a new center where small business owners, and eventually local residents, can receive financial assistance, professional training and other support for economic development.</p>
<p>The currently vacant 6,903 square meters will be rented to the city for a period of three years at a price of around $ 144,000 per year, although the landlord offers a certain share of the costs for improvements and maintenance.</p>
<p>The center is expected to open in October.</p>
<p>Addiego praised the vision of the proposal to help South San Francisco and surrounding communities recover from the pandemic.</p>
<p>&#8220;Of everything we&#8217;re working on, this one gives me the greatest hope that we can change life in the long term, and that&#8217;s exciting,&#8221; he said.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>BENICIA >> It has been 20 years since Peter Bray left the corporate world with a song in his heart. It earned him a brush of fame. Yes, longtime Benizier wrote and recorded a song after being fired from Bechtel. It was titled &#8220;Laid Off American Man&#8221;. He sent a tape copy to the San &#8230;</p>
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<p>BENICIA >> It has been 20 years since Peter Bray left the corporate world with a song in his heart.  It earned him a brush of fame.</p>
<p>Yes, longtime Benizier wrote and recorded a song after being fired from Bechtel.  It was titled &#8220;Laid Off American Man&#8221;.  He sent a tape copy to the San Francisco Chronicle&#8217;s legendary gossip columnist Herb Caen, who reprinted the texts and called Bray &#8220;my hero today.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He gave me the top six inches of it,&#8221; said Bray, a cheerful craftsman and regular with the Benicia poetry group.</p>
<p>There is more.  Within a week, Bray said he had received a postcard from popular New York state folk singer Pete Seeger and said, “I was just reading Herb Caen.  How do I get a copy of your song?  &#8220;I thought,&#8221; How cool! &#8220;</p>
<p>Two weeks later, Bray received another message in the mail from Seeger asking for a second copy. </p>
<p>&#8220;I thought,&#8221; OK, he liked it, he&#8217;ll send it to Arlo Guthrie, Arlo will record it, and I&#8217;m home free!  I am rich and fat and famous!  &#8220;&#8221;</p>
<p>Unfortunately, &#8220;It didn&#8217;t happen,&#8221; chuckled Bray.  &#8220;It&#8217;s great fun, but I fix toilets.&#8221;</p>
<p>71-year-old Bray still enjoys poetry and songwriting.  He&#8217;s been around for more than 40 years, filling scraps of paper &#8211; and later notebooks &#8211; with rhymes about his children and other things that caught his interest.  He still performs with open microphones, where he interacts with the audience with humor.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you can silence the whole room and get quiet by speaking really softly and bringing it up, you can get the whole collection of 30 people to move with you,&#8221; said Bray.  Who has published three volumes of poetry since 1972?  &#8220;And if you slide something funny into it and make the same 30 people laugh, it&#8217;s just a kick in the butt!&#8221;</p>
<p>Originally from Walnut Creek, Bray earned a master&#8217;s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966.  He worked in the defense industry for several years, designing missiles, before becoming a freelance designer and graphic illustrator.  He eventually got a job at Bechtel in San Francisco, where he was a graphics manager.  After 10 years he was fired during a major downscaling.</p>
<p>&#8220;So I wrote Laid Off American Man,&#8221; said Bray, who has been into poetry since the early 1970s.  The song starts like this: &#8220;I make windows, I make floors, I make hallways, I make doors, I do everything I can, I&#8221; Ma Laid Off American Man!  &#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;I had a tape, I had a cover, and I sent it to Herb Caen,&#8221; said Bray.  &#8220;And about a week later I called one of my designers (at Bechtel) after I left and said,&#8221; Hey, how are you?  “He said, &#8216;PR is on the alert.” I said, “What are you talking about?” He said, “You didn&#8217;t see Herb Caen this morning?  You&#8217;d better. &#8220;So I went to Raley and got the chronicle, opened it and he put all of my lyrics in.&#8221;</p>
<p>The final verses read, “I was vice president for BD, with a mission statement and a cell phone, a company watch, and a company loan.  I was vice president for BD.  Now I&#8217;m a gardener in the promised land, all of my tools are in a one man van, now I make windows, I make floors, I make hallways, I make doors, do everything I can, I&#8217;m Laid Off American Man!  ” </p>
<p>Not everything Bray writes or performs is funny.  “Crying at Starbucks” conveys his pain in the hours following his daughter&#8217;s death from Crohn&#8217;s disease in February 2012. It begins: “After selling coffee and apples in the house and ten thousand condolences via email, cell phone, cards and letters, it It all comes down to crying over Starbucks while the quiet chatter and the overheard music compete with each other. &#8220;</p>
<p>What drives his creativity?  &#8220;It&#8217;s therapeutic to me and it&#8217;s entertaining itself,&#8221; said Bray.  &#8220;And maybe &#8230; it&#8217;s helpful to someone else.&#8221;</p>
<p>Contact Tony Burchyns at 707-553-6831. </p>
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