Goodwill of Silicon Valley Leases Former Rite Aid, Nearly Doubling South San Jose Store to 15,000 SQFT
Why this matters
Retail has become a quiet outperformer. A decade of effectively zero new development has left necessity-driven, grocery-anchored, and Sun Belt strip product with negligible vacancy and re-leasing spreads in the high single digits. Cap rates have compressed in step, and the bid for stabilized portfolios is again broad across REITs, pension funds, and institutional core-plus capital. San Francisco continues to clear office at the deepest discounts to 2019 basis seen in the cycle, while multifamily fundamentals have stabilized and life sciences in the Peninsula remains active. The asset class has effectively rerated as a defensive yield trade rather than a secularly challenged sector.
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On the RET wire
- The 67th San Francisco story tracked on the wire in September 2026. All San Francisco coverage →
- Disclosed retail deal value tracked in September 2026: $2.4B across 38 reported transactions. All Retail coverage →
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The nonprofit is backfilling a vacant East Capitol Expressway drugstore emptied by Rite Aid's nationwide collapse, gaining room to pair retail sales with on-site donation processing as secondhand demand accelerates. T…
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