With downtown vacancy still a problem, Sacramento is weighing San Francisco’s Vacant to Vibrant pop-up model — free rent, grants and city help — as a quick test of what might revive retail. The idea is simple but not cheap.

Douglas Emmett filed to convert the 17‑story Westwood office tower at 10900 Wilshire into roughly 320 apartments and add a seven‑story building on the site. The project sits next to an under‑construction D Line station.

State funds will pay for updated environmental testing at a 39-acre former railyard, positioning the site for cleanup and possible industrial reuse.

Chapel Hill approved parking credits and a small grant to keep Blue Sky Robotics downtown, linking the incentive to a planned 152 jobs and a planned local headquarters. Town leaders say the move could boost downtown investment.

A National Historic Landmark downtown, a long‑running home tour and a planned battery campus have put Marshall, Michigan on more people’s radars as a place to slow down.

Roughly $97.8M in financing will remake the shuttered Lincoln Correctional Facility into 105 affordable co‑op homes with community space and energy‑efficient design.

SB Energy plans a confidential U.S. IPO after raising more than $1.8 billion to build power and data‑center campuses that support AI infrastructure.

Cherukuru Investments bought 180 acres in Howe and has filed for a municipal utility district as it eyes a mixed‑use retail and housing community near US‑75.

Three North Side apartment complexes — Next, SoNo East and Eight Eleven — were listed for sale, drawing institutional interest and setting up potentially big 2026 deals.

A May 18 construction permit greenlights Dinkel’s Lofts at 3329 N Lincoln, a seven‑story, 42‑unit project that preserves the bakery’s historic façade and neon sign.

A plan to replace the Outer Richmond Safeway with 526 apartments and a new grocery has split neighbors over traffic, parking and a temporary store closure.

The Shirley Aninias School signed a 23,000‑sq‑ft lease at 30 Wall Street, more than tripling its space and creating a two‑floor downtown campus with life‑skills facilities.

A land-sale deal opens a feasibility period for a possible 1GW campus on 500 acres near Horseshoe Bend, and Page residents are mobilizing over water, power and tourism concerns.