Max Darrow

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Max Darrow

Take a walk down Broadway in Burlingame, and it's clear that Ross Bruce knows the lay of the land better than most. "A lot of our businesses have been here for a lot of years," he said. "We're standing in front of the Royal Donut shop where I was a busboy there in 1961."He's a longtime real estate broker at AVR Realty, located on Broadway. And for the past 20 years, he says new residents, tenants, and business owners all find themselves surprised when they find out one fact about the area.

3 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Max Darrow

Menlo Park residents debates city's push to build housing units in 3 parking lots Menlo Park, one of the most affluent communities in the nation, is on the hook for nearly 3,000 units of housing by 2031, according to a state mandate. But how to get there is causing debate among residents of the city. The city is pushing forward with a plan to turn three city-owned parking lots downtown into developments with hundreds of units of affordable housing.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Max Darrow

Connection is at the core of Cuicacalli: connection to the rhythm, to the Earth below, to an individual's culture. And this year, Jesus Cortes and his students will get to connect with a crowd they've never had the chance to connect with before. "I always work to bring my culture to the highest point that I can," Cortes said.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Max Darrow

In his annual State of the City address, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan laid out his vision for the future by comparing today to the late 1990s in Silicon Valley. "There was never a better time to be a San Josean. Until today," he said. Mahan looked towards major opportunities and firsts ahead for San Jose. "In 2026, San Jose will become the first metro area in history to host both the Super Bowl and the World Cup matches in the same year," Mahan said. He touted a public safety accomplishment as well.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Max Darrow

SAN FRANCISCO — For more than 100 years, the Verdi building has stood on the corner of Columbus and Union in the North Beach area of San Francisco. But today, it is a ruin, crumbling away. The building caught fire in 2013 and then again in 2018. The flames spared nothing inside, but the shell and the façade remain. Nobody wants to see it stay the way it is, but what to do with it remains the million-dollar question.