Real Estate

Represented Embarcadero Capital Partners’ third fund in its complex $46 million acquisition of one of downtown San Jose’s most prominent office developments, Almaden Financial Plaza.

We are land use counsel to Sunnydale Development Company, a joint venture of Mercy Housing California and Related California for the Sunnydale HOPE-SF public housing replacement project that will redevelop a dilapidated public housing site into a 1700-unit mixed income development, including replacement 1 for 1 of the public housing units. We assisted in preparation of the EIR/EIS, creation of a special use district, and the negotiation of a Development Agreement between the San Francisco Housing Authority, the City and Sunnydale Development Company.

On behalf of our client, Fisher Vineyards, we prevailed upon the City of Calistoga to abandon an attempt to bring certain vineyard land from the unincorporated County into the City's sphere of influence, thus preventing the City from annexing that land into the city and preserving the viability of the land for agricultural purposes.

Represent Upstream Point Molate LLC, the developer of a billion-dollar Indian tribal resort development in the City of Richmond proposing to include hotels, casinos, performance facilities, a shopping center, residential development and tribal facilities on a former Naval Fuel Depot situated along San Francisco Bay. The Final Environmental Impact Report was certified by the City of Richmond in 2011.

Represented The Swig Company in its acquisition of the Kaiser Center, a 900,000-plus square foot mixed-use complex, in Oakland, CA.

Represented the developer in development agreement, ground lease and entitlements for the San Francisco Ferry Building, an $80 million federal historic tax credit renovation project under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).  We negotiated a complicated transaction with the Port of San Francisco, including a ground lease and development agreement, and obtained myriad entitlements for the project from the City of San Francisco, the State Lands Commission, the State Historic Preservation Office and the National Park Service.  We also negotiated several complicated lease buyouts and handled a proposed condemnation proceeding.

This sale of an active quarry, concrete recycling center and asphaltic batch processing site to a national homebuilder for development of single-family homes required complex environmental risk sharing agreements between the quarry operator, the seller of the property and the buyer.  The issues presented included quarry closure requirements and the remediation of groundwater contamination and petroleum contaminated soils.  The environmental risks were allocated through work plans, various indemnification provisions and insurance programs.

We represent BRIDGE in obtaining land use entitlements for the 4840 Mission project in San Francisco, which like 250 Laguna Honda Boulevard, was awarded a Proposition A grant.

One of the leading designers, developers and operators of high-quality fitness, sports and wellness centers, Club One is a successful San Francisco-based company with over 70 centers located in 8 states.  The Real Estate Department handles all the leasing transactions for all of the Club's centers and provides assistance with Club One's extensive corporate management contracts.

Represented Embarcadero Capital Partners in the acquisition, disposition and financing of over 25 office properties on the West and East coasts.