Savvy investors are targeting properties in San Francisco that have expiring leases that can be re-tenanted at higher rents or buildings on hard corners that can be redeveloped.

SAN FRANCISCOSan Francisco boasts one of the strongest retail markets in the country because of robust job growth in high-paying employment sectors and limited construction of retail space. That is according to a recent retail report from Marcus & Millichap. Tech firms continue to ink large deals for available office space in the market at a blistering pace.

According to the report, Salesforce has been the largest catalyst for job growth in the South of Market area and recently agreed to occupy 750,000 square feet in the newly renamed Salesforce Tower. The company is committed to millions of square feet in the area, which will boost retail spending in the once-challenged submarket.

But office-using firms are not alone in reshaping the retail landscape in the metro, the firm says. Multifamily builders are also pushing forward with projects to create additional housing options. At Market and Van Ness, for example, sites on all four corners are in the process of being permitted or sold to make way for thousands of housing units. Retailers will move into the area to support the influx of residents at the intersection that was once nearly void of housing.

On the investment side of the market, retail properties in San Francisco is heated, largely reflecting the strength of the local economy and nearly empty development pipeline, the firm says. Capital preservation plays dominate in the single-tenant sector as foreign money flows into the market. Local buyers are also active, though current pricing makes value creation beyond appreciation challenging. Savvy investors are targeting properties with expiring leases that can be re-tenanted at higher rents or buildings on hard corners that can be redeveloped. Listings with upcoming lease expirations are also favored by multi-tenant investors, though these deals are trickling into the marketplace.

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One way to get the redecoration of your home featured in goop, aside from being Gwyneth Paltrow, is to be Gwyenth Paltrow's assistant. Become Gwyneth Paltrow's assistant, and your West Hollywood apartment could also be furnished with comped Restoration Hardware goods, with help from interior design service Home Polish, as Gwyneth Paltrow's assistant Kevin Keating's was in the latest issue.

Now, there is nothing wrong with being Gwyneth Paltrow's assistant (according to Vogue food critic Jeffrey Steingarten, Keating is "excellent" help) or having your home featured in goop, her brand-building lifestyle newsletter. It would just be nice if, when goop published your "small space makeover," goop would refer to you as more than just a "goop guy." (On Home Polish he's a "friend of goop.")

There is also, despite what being on the internet or listening to Martha Stewart might lead one to assume, nothing wrong with being Gwyneth Paltrow. But it might help the broader public to greater appreciate your goofy earnest tips if they didn't gloss over facts like this all the time, like when that "space above the garage" your people transformed turned out to be "the space above Gwyneth Paltrow's garage." You can just be real! You can have an impenetrably privileged lifestyle magazine that is also candid enough.

Anyway. To the apartment.

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"You wouldn't necessarily think of a bar cart as a living room necessity," says goop, but that is what separates you from the goopers of the world, who know that a bar cart is the living room necessity. This one, from Restoration Hardware ($1,495), has a little record player on it.

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Reaching PEAK BEACHY up in here.

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This past week in Tokyo saw the end of the second Persona 3 musical's run. And while I had not seen the first, I decided with my vast knowledge of the series I owed it to myself to give Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade: The Ultramarine Labyrinth a watch.

But while I can now say that Persona 3 makes for a darn enjoyable stage play, it's unfortunately not quite up to being a musical.

Much like the BlazBlue stage play I saw earlier this year, the special effects and backgrounds were all provided by projection mapping onto the all-white stage set. This allowed for a wide variety of awesome looking locations. But where the projection mapping technology really paid off was in the fight scenes. While some actors played lesser shadows for the characters to fight against, the bosses were all animated projections. Personas were likewise projected on the set when summoned. And hats off to the SFX crew. Its timing of the special effects was perfectit always looked like the characters really were attacking the projected monsters.

But as good as the combat effects were, my favorite effect was Fuuka's persona which was projected on a semi-transparent screen with Fuuka standing on the far side. It gave the optical illusion that Fuuka was standing inside her Personajust like in the games.

Originally when Persona 3 was released, the player character was male. But when the game was re-released on the PlayStation Portable, they added a female version of the protagonist with her own Velvet Room companion and gender specific events and romances. Like Persona 3 Portable, The Ultramarine Labyrinth also has two versions of the protagonistsome performances had the male lead while others sported the female one. Thus, the play had minor changes depending on who the lead was. For the female route (which I saw) Kotone, the female protagonist, fell in love with Shinjiro. More than that, she also managed to find his missing watch and return it to him, thus changing his story in a major way. Also only in the Kotone version of the story was a comedic scene where all the girls were lost in an island jungle. The male version of the musical instead follows the boys as they hit on various girls at the beach.

All in all, staging the production with both protagonists adds rewatch value to the show as well as more than a little fanservice to anyone who played the PSP version of the game.

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Sterling Heights, MI (PRWEB) October 03, 2014

UHY Advisors, sponsor and co host of the informative, focused and lively afternoon of Angel Investing activities. Find out what it means to be an Angel Investor and its free. Spend the first part of the afternoon participating in Live pitches from some of the areas up and coming businesses. Come see and hear what its all about. Stay for the second half of the program to hear from experts on what it takes to be an accredited investor and how angel investing can provide a strong return on investment while supporting regional prosperity.

Finding profitable investment opportunities can be a challenge but community-based Private equity might be an overlooked area.

Regional economic growth requires new businesses and an ecosystem able to support startups. The most cited failure in addressing this need has been available seed capital. Recent economic studies have documented that virtually all net new job creation comes from startups, yet local financial support continues to evaporate.

While the lack of startup financing has become the highest priority for startups, it is creating new financial practices to take advantage of these investment opportunities.

This workshop provides an overview of angel investing through organized networks that provide the operational support, shared diligence and diversification opportunities that can be vital additions to an investors portfolio.

Join this workshop hosted by Ken Kousky, founding member and President of BlueWater Angels and CEO of MidMichigan Innovation Center, to learn the ropes of this angel investing concept.

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Hockey is a booming business right now. After an attention-grabbing Olympic trip and an exciting postseason for the scandal-free NHL, revenue and television ratings have risen to record levels across a largely healthy, happy league.

Yet the NHL ice is tilted decidedly to the West, and the continental divide might even grow this season.

A few months after Chicago and Los Angeles staged an epic conference finals won by the Stanley Cup champion Kings, nearly every team on the Western side of hockeys unbalanced standings made significant offseason additions to chase the leagues twin postseason powers.

PHOTOS: A Western tilt stands out for healthy, happy NHL

Anaheim added Ryan Kesler. Dallas snared Jason Spezza and Ales Hemsky. St. Louis signed Paul Stastny. Minnesota snagged Thomas Vanek. Colorado got Jarome Iginla and Daniel Briere.

Even Chicago picked up Brad Richards. Only the champs essentially stood pat, daring the West to catch them.

It seems like the West is loading up again, Kings center Anze Kopitar said. But at the end of the day, I dont think its going to matter too much what the other teams do. Its going to matter what we do.

The Blackhawks and the Kings each have two titles in the last five years, and theyre both the widely considered favorites to play for the Stanley Cup again. But when Los Angeles beat the New York Rangers in five games in the Stanley Cup finals last year, many prognosticators scoffed that five West teams could have beaten any East representative - and the theoretical math appears much the same this fall.

The West is such a grind, Ducks defenseman Ben Lovejoy said. Theres so much talent. All these huge, physical teams that skate very well. We can have another great regular season, and it wont matter if we dont have the toughness to win in the playoffs.

The Western Conference has won six of the last eight Cups, and the two East winners were stretched to a full seven games in the finals. Although Boston, Pittsburgh, Montreal and Tampa Bay return strong clubs, league MVP Sidney Crosby and the rest of the Easts stars realize theyll have to go West to win a title.

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