Blanca Torres
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With the Bay Area’s shift toward dense urban development under way, TCA Architects decided that now is the time to establish a stronger presence here. The firm, based in Los Angeles, focuses on multifamily housing and has worked on many projects in Northern California since its founding in 1993.

Chairman and CEO Thomas Cox will lead the Northern California office — a move that will bring Cox closer to his daughter and grandchildren as well as the non-car lifestyle that is much harder to find in SoCal.

The Bay Area office, in Oakland’s City Center, will kick off with about …

Blanca Torres covers East Bay real estate for the San Francisco Business Times.

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Article source: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2013/01/25/qa-with-thomas-cox-of-tca-architects.html

A new item is posted each weekday. Some San Francisco websites offer an overwhelming amount of news, reports, profiles and event calendars. SFDentro seeks to present a single jewel each day, the very best of San Francisco.

The posts are deliberately short in order to be easily digested – usually only two or three paragraphs long. They always include a photo or two, and typically have links to other pages where more information can be found.

Categories include: Happenings, People, Looking Forward, Places to See and Neighborhoods.

Hill Co. is a real estate company, but the blog is not all about real estate. Instead, it’s more general in nature. It is intended to be an insider’s guide to San Francisco, appealing to City and Bay Area residents, visitors, out-of-towners and prospective homeowners alike.

“Our website provides lots of good information on the San Francisco real estate market,” said Hill Co. Vice President Eileen Mougeot. “We have market reports, homes for sales, neighborhood profiles and more. This blog rounds things out. It offers a broader view of the City than you might find elsewhere.”

Dentro is Italian for “inside,” and that’s where the name SFDentro comes from. Items are posted on the blog, and then reposted on Hill Co.’s Facebook and Twitter channels.

Article source: http://www.jagsreport.com/2011/11/13/hill-co-real-estate-launches-an-inside-san-francisco-blog/

LOS ANGELES-With its US Bank Tower and Wells Fargo Tower in special servicing as of last week, the REIT now has 5.4 million square feet downtown either in or headed to special servicing.

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