Shuttered San Francisco Centre Eyed for Data Center Project
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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A Maryland-based financial advisory firm has made inquiries with the City of San Francisco about a possible acquisition of part of the shuttered San Francisco Centre shopping mall for redevelopment as a data center. T…
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