San Jose has approved Urban Catalyst’s plans to build apartments near Diridon Station at odds with CA High-Speed Rail 🚄💨’s planned use of the land, Matt Niksa reports bit.ly/3UneIBb

.@carmelpartners looks to turn the site of a shuttered Orchard Supply store in Sunnyvale into 400 apartments and townhomes, the city’s largest multifamily project in its pipeline, Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

.Related Companies is close to getting Santa Clara’s sign-off on the first phase of its 9 million-square-foot mixed-use development, a project initially slated to break ground in 2020, Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

.Microsoft has pitched a massive data center campus in North San Jose, a 632,000-square-foot project that would be among the largest of its kind in the city Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

.The Home Depot has pre-leased Overton Moore Properties’ 127,000-square-foot industrial project in San Jose, Matt Niksa reports, citing people familiar with the deal therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

.Vantage Data Centers obtained a $350 million loan from Societe Generale Group for the site of its 479,000-square-foot data center project in Silicon Valley Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

.The Wonderful Company, the holding company of billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick whose divisions include Fiji Water and POM Wonderful, has acquired an office building in San Jose for $85 million, Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

.Urban Catalyst says that six to nine months from now, when it starts looking for office financing for the developer’s 1.4-million-square-foot “Icon-Echo” project in San Jose, it expects the markets “will be there for us,” Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

.Holland Partner Group received a $168 million loan from North America Sekisui House to finance the construction of more than 400 apartments the two companies are jointly developing in Santa Clara, Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

.Affirmed Housing is working with VTA on a plan to add nearly 200 affordable homes, a project that would be among the tallest of its kind in the city upon completion, Matt Niksa reports bit.ly/3F9xhm2

.Freenome has put 68,000 square feet of pre-leased life science space in Brisbane back on the market, about a fifth of the total amount of space it agreed to rent at an under-construction project last year, Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

.San José Planning, Building & Code Enforcement has approved plans for three downtown projects totaling nearly 1,000 homes, Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

Vigilant Real Estate Holdings and Breed’s Hill Capital have acquired another industrial property in South San Francisco, paying about $41 million for a vacant warehouse that they’ll likely try to redevelop into life science, Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

San Francisco faces a $728 million budget deficit over the next two fiscal years, with the city projecting hundreds of millions of dollars in lower-than-expected property, business and real estate transfer taxes, Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

Novin Development has purchased an affordable housing project in North Fair Oaks, with a quarter of its 78 units set aside for adults with developmental disabilities, Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

.Billy McNair and his residential real estate team have rejoined @CBRealtyCal after four years with Compass, the 2nd time this year that a Bay Area-based team has left the latter to join Coldwell Banker Realty’s Northern California unit, Matt Niksa reports therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…

A CEO holdup and Oakland’s baseball drama are among the “buzziest” real estate stories of 2022, as compiled by Matt Niksa therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2…