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Fire Sale: $300 Million San Francisco Office Tower, Mostly Empty. Open to Offers.
wsj.com ^ | 04.27.2023 | Peter Grant and Jim Carlton

Posted on 04/27/2023 2:36:54 PM PDT by rxsid

Fire Sale: $300 Million San Francisco Office Tower, Mostly Empty. Open to Offers.
350 California Street was worth $300 million four years ago. It might sell for 80% less now, brokers say, in a market where office vacancy rates have soared.

Before the pandemic, San Francisco’s California Street was home to some of the world’s most valuable commercial real estate. The corridor runs through the heart of the city’s financial district and is lined with offices for banks and other companies that help fuel the global tech economy.

One building, a 22-story glass and stone tower at 350 California Street, was worth around $300 million in 2019, according to office broker estimates.

That building now is for sale, with bids due soon. They are expected to come in at about $60 million, commercial real-estate brokers say. That’s an 80% decline in value in just four years.

This is how dire things have become in San Francisco, an extreme form of a challenge nationwide. Nearly every large U.S. city is struggling, to some degree, with reduced office-worker turnout since the pandemic spurred remote work. No market was hit harder than San Francisco, for reasons including its high costs, reliance on a tech industry quick to embrace hybrid work, and quality-of-life issues such as crime and homelessness.

Many of the city’s most prominent corporate tenants, from Salesforce Inc. to Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., are flooding the office market with space for sublet rather than waiting for their leases to expire. The lack of office workers is rippling throughout the financial district, leading restaurants, retailers and other small businesses to lay off employees or close.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; crime; homelessness; liberalpolicy; sanfran; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko; sf; socialism
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To: TChad

There was a nuke, but it was a sociological one.


61 posted on 04/27/2023 5:58:05 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: rxsid
What a steal opportunity for the city of SF to pick it up cheap and house all the junkies and lunatics.
62 posted on 04/27/2023 6:08:25 PM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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To: rxsid

This is pretty funny.
Maybe Trump should put in a low-ball offer. That would be a hoot.
Use it for his California campaign headquarters!


63 posted on 04/27/2023 6:51:06 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: fretzer

Soon it will be 1 Chinese Yuan =
0.14 US Dollar


64 posted on 04/27/2023 6:51:56 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: rxsid

I commented a while back that this kind of security situation lends itself well to the inventiveness of Amazon.
Customers place the order online, and go to the store to pick up the purchases.
Of course, Amazon could/would invent some tweaks to make it work better. After all, Whole Foods does a terrific job with the onsite experience.


65 posted on 04/27/2023 6:57:12 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: rxsid

How about $100,000, I can scrape up $10,000.
Anyone else in?


66 posted on 04/27/2023 6:58:24 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Me too. A lender for 30 years in CRE until last Tuesday. Layoffs. I used to work in that building at Union Bank. Ironically, I got laid off in 2008 in that exact property, 15 years ago.

CRE in SF will never recover. It seems impossible, but the combination of work at home (COVID) and the incessant Left Wing policies of SF with CA taxes and regulations. Could be Detroit one day. Not kidding.


67 posted on 04/27/2023 8:31:25 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....l)
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To: wac3rd

So sorry to hear about your layoff. Trust God in all of this. The enemy is working hard but he doesn’t win.

These wicked leaders will fall hard, that you can be assured of


68 posted on 04/28/2023 4:43:41 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: rxsid

Wanna bet the ChiComs are whipping out their checkbooks...


69 posted on 04/28/2023 4:45:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla
If it's going to be purchased, I've no doubt the only ones to do it are the deep pockets in China, or...the CCP itself.

They'd love nothing more than to buy up any and every building or piece of land in our country that the owners are willing to sell them.

Even if it's a losing business proposal, they could always use a building like that in a major American financial/tech centered city to run any number of spy operations out of.

70 posted on 04/28/2023 12:36:01 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: HereInTheHeartland
"How about $100,000, I can scrape up $10,000.
Anyone else in?
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A mostly empty office tower? In the middle of leftistville? No thanks. Haha.

The taxes alone would be millions a year. And that's not including electricity, water/sewer or building upkeep.

And of course any other nutjob anti-business rules and regulations that decrepit city would throw at the new owners.

71 posted on 04/28/2023 12:43:15 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: spacejunkie2001

Yes, praying and hoping. Thanks for the advice.


72 posted on 04/28/2023 2:43:09 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....l)
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To: MV=PY

The ‘smile’ states, which essentially runs from AZ through TX all the other southern states, FLA, GA, SC, NC, VA and I’m sure a few others. The market is extremely active tight and expensive. Office tenants are giving back space or subleasing but activity is high and alot of these tenants have leases and are renegotiating or subleasing.

Malls are a different animal but strip centers and lifestyle centers are essentially full.

Occupancy of ALL CRE prior to covid was very high.

I would never buy nor advocate buying anything in a blue city


73 posted on 04/28/2023 3:12:55 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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