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Laura Waxmann

San Francisco

Business Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle

Business reporter for @sfchronicle: CRE, development, downtown. Formerly @SFBusinessTimes, @sfexaminer, @MLnow, @eltecolotesf. 💌 [email protected]

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  • 6 days ago | shorturl.at | Laura Waxmann

    The company currently leases space for its headquarters a block over from 88 Kearny, at 595 Market St., but its lease there is slated to expire next year. Century Urban Partners advised the LendingClub in its purchase of 88 Kearny. “LendingClub knows what we all know: San Francisco is worth betting on,” San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said in a statement.

  • 6 days ago | sfchronicle.com | Laura Waxmann

    The tower at 45 Fremont, which has struggled with rising vacancy in recent years, is expected to hit the market in the coming weeks. Roland Li / The ChronicleOpportunistic buyers are pouncing and desperate owners are selling office properties in San Francisco amid the continuing market downturn. As one downtown tower sold to a local company Thursday, another skyscraper was being prepped for a sale. The LendingClub Corp.

  • 1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Laura Waxmann

    The Crankstart Foundation is the latest investor seeking to jump-start the long-planned remake of San Francisco’s largest and oldest housing co-operative into a truly mixed-income community featuring new affordable housing alongside thousands of market-rate homes.

  • 1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Laura Waxmann

    Two years ago, Presidio Bay Ventures purchased an office building in downtown San Francisco for less than half of its pre-pandemic value, helping to set a benchmark for office real estate values at a time when investors were fleeing the market. This week, the San Francisco-based developer made another opportunistic bid — this time, for Silicon Valley real estate that was first listed for sale by the federal government several years ago, and recently relisted.

  • 1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Laura Waxmann |Bob Egelko

    On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division secured a trial victory in a criminal labor collusion case, resulting in the conviction by a Las Vegas federal jury of a health care staffing executive accused of conspiring to decrease wages for local nurses. As the antitrust division celebrates its major win, an effort to downsize the federal government by the Trump administration has targeted two of its four national offices for elimination, one of which is in San Francisco.

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8 Apr 25

RT @DanielLurie: Zara is opening a flagship store in Union Square! This expansion is another vote of confidence in our city. We will contin…

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Laura Waxmann @laura_waxee
8 Apr 25

RT @freemarketfail: "When times are bad, cities return to their roots, as their residents rediscover what they loved about them in the firs…

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Laura Waxmann @laura_waxee
8 Apr 25

Thank you for the shoutout @WSJ! #SanFrancisco has been through a few brutal years, exposing longstanding vulnerabilities/inequities—sometimes things have to fall apart to come back better. There are plenty of people here who believe in this iconic city. https://t.co/NXu2Tu0VCn