News & Awards.

TMG Partners has won awards for many projects
including honors for “Best Mixed Use,”
“Best Office,” and “Best Historic Rehabilitation”.

In the News. Press Releases. Awards.

2012

March 5, 2012

The Wall Street Journal

Zynga to Spend $228 Million on San Francisco Property

by Shayndi Raice

Social-game maker Zynga Inc. said it will pay $228 million to purchase its 670,000-square-foot San Francisco headquarters, according to a regulatory filing Monday.

March 5, 2012

San Francisco Chronicle

Zynga agrees to buy SF headquarters for $228 million

Zynga Inc. is using some of the money it generated from the sale of virtual buildings in games like "CityVille" to buy a real building — its own headquarters in San Francisco.

February 29, 2012

San Francisco Business Times

Macys.com inks big San Francisco lease

by J.K. Dineen

Macys.com, one of San Francisco's fastest growing technology tenants, has leased 250,000 square feet at 680 Folsom St.

February 6, 2012

California Newswire

S.F. Technology Leader Riverbed Signs Long Term Lease for World Headquarters in SOMA

by Valerie Gotten

San Francisco Mayor Edwin M.

January 30, 2012

San Francisco Business Times

Guitar Center to open this week Emeryville Public Market

by Blanca Torres

Guitar Center plans to open its new location in the TMG Partners' Emeryville Public Market on Friday.

2011

October 7, 2011

San Francisco Business Times

DivcoWest and TMG Partners close on 1275 Market

by J.K. Dineen

Now comes the interesting part.

October 5, 2011

The Wall Street Journal

Offices Make Slow Recovery

by Eliot Brown

Zynga has expanded its San Francisco headquarters at 650 Townsend St. since it signed the lease last fall.

September 30, 2011

San Francisco Business Times

TMG Ready to Roll on $87M Project

by J.K. Dineen

Big tech firms circle SoMa renovation

June 24, 2011

San Francisco Business Times

TMG to overhaul Emeryville project

by Blanca Torres

TMG Partners is renovating about 60,000 square feet of the Public Market in Emeryville to prepare for a major overhaul of the existing 14-acre retail and office complex into a pedestrian-oriented n

May 26, 2011

San Francisco Business Times

Rise & Fall: A Barometer of the Region's Movers, Shaker & Fakers

May 25, 2011

The Registry

TMG To Build 660 San Francisco Apartments

by Jon Peterson

The red-hot San Francisco apartment market, driven by robust job creation and still expensive for-sale housing, is drawing more projects to break ground.

May 18, 2011

RENTV.com

Sobrato and TMG Team Up in $91 Mil San Francisco Office Buy

by Allen Wolfsheimer

In a major NoCal acquisition, The Sobrato Organization, in partnership with TMG Partners, paid $91 mil for 500 Terry Francois, a six-story, 291k sf ($313/sf) Class A office property located on the

January 21, 2011

Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal

Sobrato Joins List of Developers Vying for Pier 70 Project

by J.K. Dineen

Driven by the prospect of a 2013 San Francisco America's Cup and Salesforce.com's recent $278 million land acquisition in nearby Mission Bay, the Port of San Francisco received an unexpecte

2010

December 8, 2010

San Francisco Business Times

Mission Bay, Emeryville projects win $1.35M grants

by Blanca Torres

Two Bay Area redevelopment projects have secured additional funding from the state's Catalyst Projects for California Sustainable Strategies Pilot Program.

December 3, 2010

California Department of Housing and Community Development

The California Department of Housing and Community Development Honors Emeryville Market Place, and Bay Front Transit Village as California Catalyst Communities and Models for Sustainability

Press Release

Sacramento - The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) will host award announcement and celebration honoring Catalyst Projects designated under HCD's

November 4, 2010

StopWaste.org

TMG Partners' Emeryville Public Market Awarded a 2010 Stop Waste Efficiency Award

Press Release

StopWaste.Org Announces Business Efficiency Award Winners

October 16, 2010

San Francisco Business Times

Zynga in San Francisco's biggest office lease in years

Morning Call

Zynga on Friday was finalizing the biggest new office lease in San Francisco in nearly five years, taking up about 270,000 square feet at the Townsend Center at Townsend and Eighth streets in San F

October 15, 2010

San Francisco Business Times

TMG DIgs into SoMa

by J.K. Dineen

In the sizzling world of South of Market real estate, all roads these days lead to TMG Partners.

October 6, 2010

San Francisco Business Times

It's TMG vs. The Blackbird at 208 Utah St.

by J.K. Dineen

Michael Covarrubias and his firm TMG Partners are known for taking on the hairiest Bay Area real estate, broken projects with high vacancy, tough entitlements, or structural shortcomings.

October 1, 2010

San Francisco Business Times

Tech drives uptick in S.F. office market

by J.K. Dineen

Fast-growing tech companies drove San Francisco's leasing market to its first quarter of growth since 2008, a trend that seems to be strengthening even as financial service and law firms contin