Oracle has put some of its Pleasanton offices up for lease, as first reported by the San Francisco Business Times. The five-story, 185,700-square-foot building at 5805 Owens Drive is reportedly about half of its real estate in the area.
Since the technology company relocated its headquarters to Austin, Texas, it has sought to shed much of its Bay Area office space, including 86,000 square feet in San Francisco’s Financial District, a Belmont property and 17 stories in San Jose, according to the Business Times.
Urban America has never been a great place for foreigners to visit. Over-rated. Our nation is both too young to have a romantic history and not modern enough to be futuristic like Singapore. And most cities lack really convenient public transit - a needed amenity for most tourists if not for the residents. The mountain ranges, deserts and coastlines, on the other hand, are all one-of-a-kind.
Don’t know whether you have been to Manhattan/ Queens/ Brooklyn. It’s public transportation is completely different from the rest of US and is top notch except for glamor.
Huh. Here in AZ all guns, even fully automatic, are legal and you don’t need a permit to carry them in public. Abortion is banned. Folk of limited means can get vouchers for private schools. Starting next year the income tax rate is a flat 2.5%. And yet we don’t make it into the top most conservative states. Makes one wonder what one needs to do - or how those metrics were established.
The typical applicant currently waits a staggering 627 calendar days before obtaining a full building permit from the city to construct a multifamily housing project, and 861 days before gaining the same approval for a single-family residence, the analysis found.
That’s not counting the one to two years — or longer — it usually takes for an applicant to clear an earlier stage of city planning approval.
“The solar industry has said the plan would amount to a 75% cut in average payment rates to customers.”
I don’t understand how many individual or business can spend money with confidence in California. They change the rules whenever they want in the name of fairness.
Ok, the irony of that combined with this is AMAZING.
Do they think cutting rates for people who have net positive energy usage will help or hurt the energy shortage? Combine the energy shortage with the push for EVs, and you have literal insanity. There is no comprehensive plan other than pie-in-the-sky optimism. Someone else will figure it out and solve the problems.
People’s net positive energy usage never helped the utilities. Since solar is intermittent and can’t be economically stored utilities still need to contract for the same baseline load. That’s the whole problem with it. That and having to pay for energy from rooftops that can’t be used.
True but people having it reduces grid demand during peak usage when it is hottest. Now people have less incentive to do solar, so more demand will go to the grid which can’t handle it. Combine that with pushing for EVs, and they have conflicting polices that’ll result in disaster.
California accounted for 30% of the country’s homeless population in 2022, despite making up less than 12% of the total population, according to federal data released Monday. It was also home to 50% of the country’s unsheltered people, or those living in places such as streets, cars or parks.
It had the largest increase in its homeless population of any other state from both 2020-22 (6.2%) and 2007-22 (23.4%), whereas Florida — a state often in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s crosshairs as he spars with its Republican governor Ron DeSantis — saw a 5.6% decrease from 2020-22 and notched the country’s biggest decrease from 2007-22 (46%).
