UC Berkeley’s Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences is a $210 million facility where collaborative biological research and teaching center on solving the world’s health problems. The focus is on cancer biology, stem cell biology and infectious and neurodegenerative diseases.

Emily Fancher
Senior Editor – San Francisco Business Times

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Last week, we featured 10 finalists from the San Francisco Business Times’ annual Real Estate Deals of the Year contest. Here are more finalist deals and projects that reshaped the Bay Area real estate landscape in 2011.

(Click the photo to start a slideshow of Real Estate Deals of the Year finalists.)

This week’s collection of deals and projects range from the mammoth and potentially transformational $210 million Li Ka Shing Center at UC Berkeley to a massive $520 million industrial portfolio that spans the Bay Area. While big transactions and buildings are certainly noteworthy and fun to write about, Real Estate Deals also celebrates some of the smaller, but riskier deals, such as Swift Realty’s purchase of Tower Plaza in San Mateo.

I hope that this week’s slideshow gives you a sense of the incredible range of Bay Area real estate activity in 2011. If you want to find out which of these finalists actually won, you’ll have to attend the awards on March 21 at the Palace Hotel. (Click here to register)

In the meantime, I’d love to hear from you about which real estate deals of 2011 — leases, sales and new projects — from RD to office to residential to health and cultural space — deserve to win.

Emily Fancher is a senior editor at the San Francisco Business Times.

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