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10/13/2026

Costco expects to hire about 400 people at its new West Oakland location, documents on file at City Hall show.

The 166,800-square-foot warehouse store would sit at the corner of West Grand Avenue and Wake Avenue on a section of an old U.S. Army base once completed. The site also is expected to include a fuel station and 947 parking spaces, according to city planning files.
The store will be open from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, records show.

The fuel station will be open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day, according to the proposal.

A Costco store proposed for part of a former military base in Oakland could produce hundreds of jobs.

10/03/2026

Filmmaker Tyler Perry is bidding farewell to his Beverly Hills mansion, listing the property for $57 million—mere weeks after revealing his plans to move to Puerto Rico.

The movie mogul, 57, listed the nine-bedroom, 15-bathroom property on Sept. 29, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

The property, which is listed with Santiago Arana with The Agency, is described in its listing as "extraordinary expression of privacy, security, and exclusivity."

The movie mogul, 57, listed the nine-bedroom, 15-bathroom property on Sept. 29, after owning it for decades.

09/26/2026

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09/26/2026

Just Listed! Triplex! Three homes on one lot, with one unit currently vacant. The Victorian-style front house, built in 1904, is complemented by two contemporary townhome-style residences at the rear, built in 2009. Each rear unit offers 4 bedrooms and 3.5 baths, a garage, and these modern units are not subject to rent control. Utilities include four electric meters, three separate gas meters, and one shared water meter. Additional attic space offers great potential for a buyer with vision, including a possible conversion to a fourth unit, Buyer to Verify.

Daniel Cotten,
DRE 02118699

https://danielcotten.com/listing/CA/Oakland/3134-Pleitner-Ave-94602/233893438

For sale: , 6,402 SQFT Multifamily. Three homes on one lot, with one unit currently vacant... $1,450,000.

09/13/2026

San Francisco’s city attorney is suing two alleged squatters accused of trying to take over a multimillion-dollar Sea Cliff home with forged and altered deeds, then sell it for profit.

The lawsuit, filed by City Attorney David Chiu on Friday against Brandon Aadee and Diana Peng, asks a judge to void the disputed deeds, block the two from claiming ownership or occupying the property at 250 32nd Ave. and stop

San Francisco’s city attorney is suing alleged squatters accused of trying to take over a $4.4 million house in one of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods with forged deeds, then sell it for...

08/16/2026

Two AI-adjacent leases and a pricey multifamily deal made for an eventful week in the Bay Area

All aboard the hype train! Wait, this is just a BART, and it’s headed to … West Oakland?

While it’s unlikely that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk will ever again sit among the plebians in a public transit car, the locations of their newest manufacturing plants could lead to quite a few more passengers in the Bay Area. Within a matter of two days, two of the world’s wealthiest men decided Oakland would be the backdrop for their companies’ next chapters.




https://therealdeal.com/san-francisco/2026/08/15/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-ink-leases-in-oakland/

05/25/2026

Several rare San Francisco lots sold at auction Tuesday for eyebrow-raising sums, even in a city known for shocking prices. Located near the shoreline close to Candlestick Park, the lots were billed as “a unique opportunity,” with each offering 5,000 square feet, or about 1/10 of an acre of land. The lots sold for less than $1,000 a piece, but there was a catch, of course.

The lots were billed as "a unique opportunity."

05/20/2026

Finding a gas station in the Bay Area has become more difficult in recent years as hundreds of stations have closed, driven in part by the high cost of removing potentially dangerous underground storage tanks and complying with state law.

In San Francisco's Mission District, a Shell station remains out of service while its steel tanks are replaced - a process that can be complex and hazardous.

During one removal, gasoline vapors inside a tank caused an explosion, underscoring the risks involved.

Finding a gas station in the Bay Area has become more difficult in recent years as hundreds of stations have closed, driven in part by the high cost of removing potentially dangerous underground storage tanks and complying with state law.

05/12/2026

Housing prices in the Bay Area have never been higher. The stock market keeps climbing to new records — mainly because of a single tech sector. Major companies have gone through multiple rounds of layoffs. The cost of living, from mortgage rates to a gallon of gas or milk, keeps going up. There’s a war in the Middle East.

The 2007 vibes are strong. That was the year the housing bubble burst, tied to the subprime mortgage crisis that triggered the Great Recession.

But do all the parallels indicate that we’re in another bubble — and that the housing market could again be poised to crash?

Mortgage rates are high and buyers are pulling back. So why aren’t Bay Area home prices crashing? An economist explains.

04/03/2026

Oakland's Jack London District is embracing a new era expansion. Many new businesses and residence are finding major value in Jack London.