San Francisco ranks fifth in the nation as a location for real estate development and investment, according to a national study released Thursday in San Francisco.The City lost out to top-rated New York City, which was deemed the most desirable metropolitan area to invest in development and real estate in the nation, according to the 2008 Emerging Trends study, an annual survey of real estate industry professionalsput out by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the nonprofit Urban Land Institute. Seattle was the only West Coast city to rank higher than San Francisco on the annual list.
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Although he has been involved in the brand-management industry for nearly 20 years, in many ways Steven Addis is just now beginning to trulywork.A year ago, Addis offered partnership of his firm to longtime co-worker John Creson, and the two decided to focus specifically on companies that reflected their ideals. With that, the Addis Creson brand-management firm was born.
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With the score 7-0 just seconds before halftime, Thursday’s San Francisco Section championship resembled little more than a ho-hum affair. Then Deshon Marman happened. The Mustangs’ junior defensive end came up with two enormous plays on defense and special teams in a 10-second span that completely altered the course of the game, helping Lincoln cruise to a 49-0 victory and its third straight Turkey Bowl title.
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Unlike many of his Lincoln football teammates who are used to playing annually for the San Francisco Section championship, Deshon Marman will be a Turkey Bowl novice when his team squares off against Washington for The City title today. While the Mustangs were winning back-to-back City championships, Marman was suiting up for Riordan, where his brother John currently plays. After deciding to transfer to Lincoln for his junior year, Marman wants a part of the championship glory that his teammates have been fortunate enough to taste twice already.
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Even though they were leading by 20 points and there was less than two minutes to play, there was going to be no let up from members of the Lincoln defense.With Mission perched on the Lincoln 3-yard line, the stout Mustangs defense stiffened, keeping the Bears out of the end zone and preserving a shutout in a hard-fought 20-0 win in the San Francisco Section semifinals.
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Despite dropping their first three games to start the Academic Athletic Association season, there was no panic among a core group of players on the Mission football team. They had experienced a similar back-against-the-wall scenario in their careers, albeit on a different playing surface.Four players who keyed Mission’s underdog run in the San Francisco Section basketball playoffs last winter are again playing big roles again for their school, only this time they’re doing it on the football field.
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Playing in front of his home crowd for the last time in his career, Lincoln senior running back David Henderson wasn’t about to go out quietly.
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More than 16 years ago, when she was in her early 20s and just barely out of art school, Jeanine Payer moved her fledgling company from a basement apartment in the Tenderloin into the Phelan Building at 730 Market St., historically the center of the jewelry industry in San Francisco.She viewed the decision as a necessary move to legitimize her business, but also one rife with unknowns.
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The tired sporting cliche about defense winning championships may still prove accurate, but, as evidenced by last season’s USF women’s basketball team, a little offense never hurt anyone. The Dons, who finished 10-21, averaged a West Coast Conference-worst 58.6 points per game, including three games in which they scored less than 40 points.
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After a disappointing 13-18 season, marked dolefully by senior guard Armondo Surratt’s ailments and the academic uncertainty of talented yet mercurial swingman Antonio Kellogg, there was hope entering this season that injuries and grade problems would be a remnant of the past for the USF men’s basketball team.Unfortunately for the Dons, that rosy scenario will not be a reality.
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El Camino interim football coach Mark Turner had a begrudging smile on his face and a related anecdote in mind when recalling the play that knocked out Colts running back Charles Truong last year with a broken collarbone.
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It may not quite be the Emmies or the Oscars, but the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce will pay tribute tonight to top performers at the annual Excellence in Business Awards, or Ebbies.Startup airline Virgin America and the financial services firm Charles Schwab Corp. (SCHW) have already been named as winners in their respective categories, while other winners will be announced tonight. Eleven San Francisco companies have been named as finalists in five business categories.
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In an emerging industry as exclusive as the clean-technology sector, the professional world is pretty small. So it was no surprise that Inside Greentech founder Dallas Kachan eventually met up with the industry’s leading investment organization, the Cleantech Network.Inside Greentech, the clean technology online trade publication Kachan created in October 2006, was bought up by the Cleantech Network, an interconnected group of technology companies and investors, in August of this year.
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While every player, coach and fan in attendance had a vested interest in the City College of San Francisco football game last weekend against College of San Mateo, one particular group of individuals had a little bit more on the line than the rest.That group, the players making up the CCSF defense, had just been shredded for 42 points, including 14 in a fourth-quarter breakdown that saw the Rams’ blow a 10-point lead.
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San Mateo-based pharmaceutical company NeurogesX’s search for treatments for chronic pain has led the company to look in some surprizing places.Presiding over the hunt for NeurogesX is Anthony DiTonno, a 25-year veteran in the medical industry who joined the company in April of 2003. Since being promoted to president and CEO in August of that year, DiTonno has helped oversee the development of NeurogesX’s top pain-relieving product, the NGX-4010 dermal patch.
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