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    A Strong Fiscal Year

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    Opportunity Based on the official report from CBRE, 2015 - 2016 will be a strong fiscal year for U.S multifamily market to grow. The projected trading and investment value is recorded to be $125 billion, reflecting a year to year incremental margin of 15%. The report also illustrates that demand will substantially growth in most metropolitan cities. Real estate absorption rate will reach a height in yearly-average, approximately around 25% above the historical average level. Millennials, single

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    Yerba Buena Island Bridge Essay

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    The current Bay Bridge spans across the San Francisco Bay and through Yerba Buena Island. The reason the bridge travels through an island is because in the 1930’s it would have been nearly impossible to construct an eight mile long bridge spanning such deep water. During most of the 20th

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    way more. When you're in California, make sure to stop and check out some historical sights such as the Grand Hearst Castle. I haven't even gotten started on the San Francisco Bay Area. You have the South Bay, East Bay, Peninsula, North Bay, and San Francisco, each of which having something interesting to offer. In the South Bay, there's San Jose and Santa Clara County, which many often describe as the heart of Silicon Valley. It's the tech, innovation capital of the country, and offers companies such

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    the West Coast of the United States. Within the state of California, Oakland is on the east side of the San Francisco Bay with 19 miles of coastline to the west and flatland/hills to the east. Oakland occupies a total area of 78.0 square miles, land of 55.8 square miles and water of 22.2 square miles (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). It is bordered by the city of Berkeley on the North, the city of San Leandro on the South and the city of Alameda on the west (Appendix A). The neighborhoods in Oakland include

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    referred to this valley to Yosemite Valley because of its glamorous views. The name of this valley is derived from Miwok word hatchhatchie, meaning edible grass (tchistory). Hetchy-Hetch was used shortly after as a reservoir and water system for the Bay Area. Hetch-Hetchy Valley is located in the Yosemite National Park of California. Water from Hetch-Hetchy was delivered through the damming of the Tuolumne River at around 3,800 feet elevation; it travels through complex tunnels through the Sierra Nevada

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    Adding to the inequalities and misfortunes within communities of color, gentrification has taken the Bay Area by a storm. Gentrification is the purchasing of deteriorated urban homes and areas, then the renovation by higher-end and middle class communities. An abundance of high-end people rush into the Bay Area and purchase up the real estate. Incoming middle and higher class take the Bay Area real estate and revitalise it into up-and-coming neighborhoods, then increase rent prices. Therefore, reducing

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    The San Francisco Opera main marketing challenges centered on “the need to coordinate a plan to increase awareness, attendance and ultimate donations” (Kind, 2000, p. 9) from the Silicon Valley area. The opera had a steady donor base from Silicon Valley, but the marketing team found that the donors did not match those who were actually attended opera performances at the San Francisco Opera. Silicon Valley did represent between 17 and 18.3 percent of the total opera subscriber base (Kind, p. 20),

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    Living in the Bay Area residents notice the changes in the city both large and small ways. Changes such as childhood businesses closing or losing the recognition of a place they have grown up living in. San Francisco, in particular, has become at risk to gentrification in different districts causing lower income or even middle-class residents to struggle to pay rising rent costs. The rise in rent is not only seen in San Francisco but other cities in the Bay Area such as South San Francisco. As a resident

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    Interactive Map of San Francisco Shows Potential Health Impacts of Climate Change AND Climate change: Future Bay Area weather will be more like San Diego’s Citation: Kaye, L. (2016, May 04). Interactive Map Shows Potential Health Impacts of Climate Change. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/05/interactive-map-san-francisco-shows-potential-health-impacts-climate-change/ Krieger, L. M. (2015, August 07). Climate change: Future Bay Area weather will be more like San Diego’s.

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    Argumentative Analysis

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    The AM dial in the Bay Area is as diverse as the people that make up the population. It includes stations that play a diverse mix of language specific content as well as sports and talk radio that presents a tossed salad of ideas, viewpoints, philosophies, opinions, information, and rants. San Francisco, even though consistently run by democratic city and local leaders, is actually more "green" than blue. Along with Berkeley, San Francisco is traditionally anti-war, pro-civil rights, extremely eco/environmental

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