An 11.6-acre site on the east side of San Jose’s popping Santana Row shopping center is being brought to market for the first time in more than 40 years.

The Winchester family, which also owns the Winchester Mystery House next door, is offering the site unpriced as a redevelopment opportunity under a 50-year ground lease. Three of the signature, mushroom-capped movie houses owned and operated by Century Theatres throughout Silicon Valley and a sea of surface parking currently occupy the site. The property is zoned for immediate development of 500,000 square feet of offices and retail space but could accommodate more than a million square feet for the right user.

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New York City-based Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, formerly known as RREEF Real Estate, expects to achieve an initial yield of 6 percent on the 431,490 square-foot Oakmead West buildings in Sunnyvale that it has acquired from Equity Office.

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Asset paid $275.7 a square foot in an all-cash transaction, according to industry sources with first-person knowledge of the exchange.

The acquisition is one of three that the real estate manager has made on behalf of three institutional investors for $266 million total. The other two properties are an 89,074-square-foot Calabasas, Calif., neighborhood shopping center, The Courtyard at the Commons, and a 319,844-square-foot Seattle office property at 605-625 Union Station.

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“As we continue to leverage our strong industry relationships and expertise in the local markets in which we operate, we are very pleased to add these high-quality assets to our clients’ portfolios,” he said.derson, head of real estate Americas for Deutsche Asset & Wealth, said the three properties share similar qualities, including “a dynamic location within a core market, currently with stable tenancy that should provide consistent income, and low in-place rents relative to market, which we expect to provide appreciation over time.”

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The office vacancy rate fell only slightly during the first quarter, as a lack of significant job growth continued to impede demand for space, according to a quarterly report released on Tuesday.

At the same time, U.S. office construction during the first quarter reached a 14-year low as developers remain spooked by soft demand and meager rent growth, according to real estate research firm Reis Inc.

Persistent lackluster U.S. job growth was behind the 0.1 percentage point U.S. office vacancy rate decline. Demand for office space hinges on hiring workers to fill it. Although hiring in February reached 236,000, that level has not yet been consistent enough to convince employers to commit to leasing more space. In areas where the growing technology and energy industries are dominant employers, rents are increasing much faster than the national average.

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San Jose’s City Council has approved a trio of agreements with Samsung Semiconductor Inc. to build a 680,000-square-foot research and development campus and new North American headquarters in North San Jose.

The project is expected to involve a capital investment of no less than $200 million, assuming an estimated per square foot construction cost of about $300 and excluding the value of business equipment required to outfit the facility.

The campus, which is proposed to include two, 10-story towers, is expected to house 2,000 workers. Samsung has an existing 300,000-square-foot complex at the site, 3655 N. First St., where 370 people already work.

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It’s one of those winter days in the Bay Area where winds and a downpour are going to make that sprint from the parking lot to your office building a wet mess. If only the adjacent parking garage had any spaces. Lucky for you, you’re on speaking terms with the building. Yes, the building. It tells you that there are two spaces unfilled and one of them is near the fourth-level elevator. That “conversation” is not science fiction. And that isn’t all that a “smart” building might tell its tenants and owners.

“There are a couple of trends we see in the industry,” said David Marks (pictured), chief executive officer of Teecom, an Oakland-based technology systems research, strategy, design and engineering firm that has worked on real estate projects from hospitals to corporate headquarters.

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