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Business Wire
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- Business
- Business Wire
Enliven Partners Acquires Marin County Apartment Community
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enliven Partners, an independent real estate investment and development firm, has acquired a 72-unit apartment community in San Rafael, California, for $21.35 million. Located at 175 and 195 Nova Albion Way, the two adjacent properties will be unified and operated as Nova at Terra Linda. This is Enliven Partners' first acquisition. 'This is an opportunity to steward two well-positioned assets and help ensure they continue serving Marin County's workforce housing needs,' said Matt Myzak, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Enliven Partners. 'This project aligns perfectly with our company values of creating great places to live and fostering strong communities for individuals and families.' The acquisition was completed in partnership with a Bay Area-based real estate investment firm and reinforces Enliven's broader strategy to invest in and enhance multifamily properties through targeted physical upgrades and responsive and attentive management. The firm's approach emphasizes long-term value creation by improving both livability for residents and operational efficiencies. 'Our goal is to make thoughtful improvements that reflect the character of the surrounding neighborhood and elevate day-to-day life for residents,' said Seth Mallen, Co-Founder and Partner. Enliven's leadership brings more than five decades of combined experience in real estate investment, development and operations. Prior to founding Enliven, Myzak and Mallen were instrumental in successfully revitalizing more than a dozen properties in the San Francisco Bay Area, including three multifamily assets containing 700-units in Marin County. 'We're excited about future opportunities in the multifamily space,' said Myzak. 'This project reflects the kind of balanced, broad stakeholder-focused approach we believe in, where everyone benefits. Having lived and invested in this market across multiple cycles, our experience supports our conviction that the Bay Area is poised for continued growth.' About Enliven Enliven Partners is an independent real estate investment and development company, specializing in constructing, acquiring and improving multi-family housing throughout the western US. With a philosophy rooted in putting people first, we create high-quality living environments that energize communities and deliver strong, sustainable returns. Our firm's leadership team brings more than 50 years of combined experience and a track record of revitalizing properties through thoughtful design and hands-on management, and respect for the surrounding environment. For more information, visit:
San Francisco Chronicle
21-06-2025
- Politics
- San Francisco Chronicle
Former S.F. Mayor London Breed reveals her post-City Hall career plans
Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed has been quiet about her professional plans since she left office in January, but that's starting to change. The Aspen Policy Academy announced Wednesday that Breed and G.T. Bynum, the Republican former mayor of Tulsa, are its first bipartisan 'civic innovation' advisers-in-residence. The academy, a Bay Area-based operation of the Washington, D.C. think tank Aspen Institute, said Breed and Bynum will spend six months mentoring fellows on policy projects, representing the academy at events and working on projects about policy subjects of their choosing. It's not a full-time job, though it does come with a stipend, and Breed is believed to be exploring other unspecified career opportunities as well. Still, the academy's announcement provided the first public indication of how San Francisco's former mayor is spending some of her time following 12 years as an elected official in the city. 'This program is about more than learning how government works — it's about inspiring a new era of civic leadership,' Breed said in a statement released by the academy. Aspen Institute CEO Dan Porterfield said in a statement that mayors 'bring distinctive insights to the work of policymaking given their proximity to the people and communities they serve.' Breed and Bynum 'will be an invaluable resource to future policy leaders,' Porterfield said. The Aspen Institute has connections to Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable organization tied to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He was one of Breed's top benefactors when she ran for reelection last year. Breed also appointed a former Bloomberg staffer to the board of supervisors during her final weeks in office. Breed was elected mayor in 2018 and served in the role for more than six years, until she was unseated in November by Daniel Lurie. A native of the city who grew up in public housing in the Western Addition, she was the first Black woman mayor of San Francisco. Her tenure at City Hall was marked by a series of overlapping crises, including the pandemic, which hurt the city's economy and upended the agenda on which she campaigned. Breed won praise for her early response to COVID-19, but her tenure quickly became dominated by public outrage over rampant drug use on city streets and record overdose deaths driven by the rise of fentanyl. As downtown offices emptied out, major retailers fled Union Square and viral videos of brazen property crimes spread online. San Francisco's reputation took a nosedive, further complicating Breed's fight for another term. Her reelection campaign last year centered around a hopeful message, pointing to a drop in reported crime and other developments as evidence that she was leading San Francisco out of its pandemic doldrums. But Lurie, a political outsider who'd never held elected office before, ultimately defeated her by 10 points
Boston Globe
19-06-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Make that another $1 million: Dueling Super PACs in Boston mayor's race rake in more cash
A separate super PAC backing Kraft remained busy, too. 'Your City, Your Future,' which has already dropped Taken together, the outside groups reported pulling in $973,101 between their newly filed reports. The contributions pushed the total raised by the two super PACs to more than $3.9 million through mid-June, with 'Your City, Your Future' — and its $3.16 million in contributions — accounting for the vast majority of that. Advertisement The 'Bold Boston' super PAC first formed in 2023, when it spent nearly $100,000 supporting a trio of Wu allies in their successful bids for city council. Advertisement It effectively re-emerged in mid-March, roughly a month after Kraft Mike Firestone has worked under Wu since she took the mayor's office in 2021. Karen Firestone has been a longtime contributor to Wu, whom she first donated to in 2013, and other state Democrats, including Governor Maura Healey, campaign finance records show. Efforts to reach Karen Firestone were not immediately successful Thursday. Spokespeople for 'Bold Boston' and Wu's campaign also didn't immediately comment. 'Bold Boston' also received $175,000 in early June from the Environmental League of Massachusetts Action Fund Independent Expenditure PAC, whose only donation so far this year was $150,000 in March from billionaire A slate of labor-aligned groups also donated heavily to the Wu-aligned group, including the 1199 SEIU MA PAC, which gave $100,000, and the Unite Here Tip State and Local Fund, which gave $150,000. The Green Advocacy Project, a Bay Area-based 501c(4) organization that gives heavily to The group took a variety of smaller donations, too, including $10,000 from Barbara Lee, a Cambridge philanthropist who's worked for decades helping get women elected office, and $25,000 from William Lee, a partner at WilmerHale, which Super PACs are allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, and, unlike candidates themselves, they can take donations directly from businesses. They are barred, however, from coordinating with any candidates or their campaigns. Advertisement The attacks 'Bold Boston' has launched against Kraft echo the arguments Wu and her allies have made on the campaign trail: that Kraft, the son of Kraft, a longtime nonprofit leader, is loaning his campaign $2 million from his own wallet. The Kraft-aligned 'Your City, Your Future' super PAC has taken $1 million from New Balance chair and billionaire Jim Davis, as well as billionaire businessman Paulson, who gave $100,000 Matt Stout can be reached at
San Francisco Chronicle
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
‘Lay of the Land' at Root Division
'Lay of the Land' features 14 Bay Area-based artists making work about the environment. Co-curated by Naomi Alessandra Schultz, Julianna Heller and Eleanor Scholz O'Leary, the show includes painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, textiles, installation, collage and assemblage. The works on view seek to 're-engage nature and place through personal histories' with featured artists including Jeremiah Barber, Shao-Feng Hsu, Sun Park and Catherine Wang McMahon. The exhibition is partly inspired by the philosophy of Finnish new media theorist and professor in digital aesthetics Jussi Parikka, who wrote '[Art practice benefits] from unfocusing; to train oneself to observe what appears out of sight … to cultivate an understanding of the structural complexity and agency of our environment.' By employing methods akin to Parikka's idea of unfocused observing, each artist seeks to be attuned to the unseen in landscapes, and 'Lay of the Land' hopes to offer unique ways of experiencing environments through art.
USA Today
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Jonathan Mayers, Bonnaroo cofounder dies, days before festival
Jonathan Mayers, Bonnaroo cofounder dies, days before festival Show Caption Hide Caption The first Bonnaroo started with an epic traffic jam A look back at the first annual Bonnaroo, and the massive traffic jam that preceded it. Nashville Tennessean Jonathan Mayers, a titan of the music festival business and cofounder of Bonnaroo, has died. Mayers' death was confirmed in a post to the Tennessee-based festival's official Instagram page. No cause of death was revealed, and his age is not confirmed at this time. USA TODAY has reached out to Bonnaroo for comment. "Our hearts are extremely heavy as we mourn the loss of one of our Co-Founders, Jonathan Mayers," the post reads. "For more than a decade, Jonathan was a creative force behind this festival that so many of us have held near and dear to our hearts now for more than twenty years." Mayers was highly influential in the music and entertainment scene. He founded several large music festivals, including Bonnaroo and Bay Area-based Outside Lands. Bonnaroo is set to kick off this weekend, running from June 12-15. Mayers' death will no doubt hang heavy over a crowd gathered to enjoy a festival that may well be his crowning achievement. "Our thoughts are with Jonathan's family and friends during this very difficult time," the post continued. "This weekend, we celebrate Jonathan by doing the two things we know best to do in our favorite place on the planet. Spreading love and radiating positivity." In 2002, Mayers teamed up with Ashley Capps to found Bonnaroo, which brought more than 70,000 fans to Middle Tennessee in its inaugural year for a four-day musical experience. The festival remains one of the most well-known music festivals in the U.S. today. In memory of Mayer, a tree will be planted at The Farm in Manchester, according to the festival's Instagram post.
