San Jose’s Diridon Station Area Plan is officially a go.

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The San Jose City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the new land-use guide for the 250-acre area centered on Diridon Station, the city’s biggest transit hub. The plan was slated for approval earlier this month, but council members delayed taking action until this week to go over some last-minute changes.

The plan hasn’t gotten a lot of coverage, but it’s a big deal for the long-term future of the area, which is just opposite downtown on the other side of Highway 87.

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“We are in an outright boom; the strongest place in America.” Those were the resounding words spoken by Kenneth Rosen, chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley, as he opened the center’s 19th annual conference, Monday, April 28, describing the state of the Bay Area real estate market.

The information presented at the event summarized the state of the national economy, with special emphasis on the regional figures, as well. But it was the assessment of the real estate industry that most of the attendees of the event wanted to hear. Unsurprisingly, the region checked in as healthy as one would expect.

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The Carlyle Group is buying Lincoln Court, one of the few higher-end office complexes in Campbell, in a deal rumored to be roughly $41 million, or $335 per square foot. Principal Global Investors is the seller.

Campbell is a market with limited inventory, and brokers say the West Valley city is poised to pick up as tenants get pushed out of nearby markets such as Los Gatos, where Netflix has continued to gobble up space. In a sign of bullishness on the market, Carlyle is raising asking rents at the 124,000 square foot, courtyard-style building located at 2105 S. Bascom Ave. to $3.75 per foot, full service.

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As the commercial building boom accelerates within the South Bay’s Golden Triangle district, the burgeoning North San Jose tech district bounded by highways 101, 880 and 237, future workers will be able to take advantage of new residential options rising in the surrounding regions and linked by bus, light rail and, in the near future, BART.

Tech giants such as Samsung and others are expanding their operations within the Golden Triangle while other major players, such as Adobe, Acer, Oracle and Pinger, continue to lure technology workers within the downtown San Jose core. These workers, according to Jerry Nickelsburg, senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, are predominately Millennials (18-33) who prefer to live close to work in more densely populated areas rife with restaurants and shops.

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The San Francisco-Silicon Valley region experienced a sizzling 2013 in real-estate development and job growth that were fueled by a young technology crowd. More of the same is forecast for 2014 although the pace will not be quite as dizzying.

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Bay Area real estate The RegistrySan Francisco and Silicon Valley will also increasingly become symbiotic as tech companies from the Peninsula to the South Bay continue to beef up their office presence in the big city in an effort to attract highly skilled employees who are seeking the urban lifestyle.

Tempering the enthusiasm somewhat are factors that include rising interest rates and a shaky confidence from small companies concerned with the high cost of doing business in California.

Still, “the trend from an office standpoint in this very special geography that we sit in is incredibly positive,” said Carl Shannon, senior managing director for New York-based developer Tishman Speyer. “We’re blessed in San Francisco to have an economy which has overcome the shrinking that is going on in corporate America.”