James K. Bennett

With over 30 years of experience in Bay Area commercial real estate, Mr. Bennett is well qualified to advise tenants, developers and investors on negotiating lease and sale transactions. Mr. Bennett’s extensive real estate skill-set encompasses a multitude of disciplines including tenant and landlord representation, investment sales, asset management, development, valuation and investment consulting.

Over the years, Mr. Bennett has represented a wide variety of tenants including life science firms, Fortune 500’s, international banks, foreign consulates and technology firms. He has also represented a diverse range of investors, ranging from institutional multi-national investment firms to local building owners. Mr. Bennett is currently a senior member of the firm’s life science group and is involved in major tenant and landlord assignments throughout the Bay Area and the West Coast.

Credentials

• B.A. in Urban Planning with minors in Economics and Geography: San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California

Key Clients and Assignments – Tenant Representation

Key Clients and Assignments – Sublandlord Representation

• Onyx Pharmaceuticals 
  Subleased a 3-building campus at 249-269 East Grand Ave, South San Francisco to Verily, Inc.
  407,000 SF
• Amgen Inc. 
  Represented client in the subleasing of three buildings at Britannia Oyster Point, South San Francisco. 
  345,000 SF
• Nektar Therapeutics 
  Subleased 100,000 SF of lab and office space at 201 Industrial in San Carlos.
  100,000 SF
• Bristol-Myers Squibb 
  Represented client in the subleasing of lab space at Bay Center Place, Hayward.
  60,000 SF

Key Clients and Assignments – Landlord Representation

• Alexandria Real Estate Equities 
  Represented client in the marketing of a multibuilding Class-A life science development project at Mission Bay, San Francisco. This included major leases with tenants such as Celgene Corporation, UCSF, Illumina and Pfizer.
  750,000 SF
• Wareham Properties 
  Represented client in the leasing over 700,000 SF within their 2 million square foot laboratory portfolio in Berkeley and Emeryville.
  700,000 SF
• Kilroy Realty 
  Represented Kilroy Realty in the successful preleasing of 3 Class A laboratory buildings totaling 636,000 SF at Kilroy Oyster Point Phase I.
  636,000 SF
• Prudential and SKS 
  Represented clients in the leasing of a fourbuilding laboratory project at Harbor Bay Business Park in Alameda. Completed over 300,000 SF of new leases and renewals to the FDA, Celera, All Cells, Biotime and Penumbra.
  300,000 SF
• SteelWave 
  Currently representing client in leasing of theLAB in West Berkeley consisting of 5 buildings.
  ±300,000 SF

Key Clients and Assignments – Sales

• Private Offshore Partnership
  $308 Million sale of development site on the South San Francisco waterfront to Kilroy Realty.
  2.5 M
• Alexandria Real Estate Equities
  Represented client in a $278 million sale for 2.1 M SF of development rights to Salesforce.com and the sale of a 232,000 SF development project to Kaiser Permanente.
  2.32 M
• ECOR Holdings 
  Represented client in the sale of a Mission Bay development site to The Shorenstein Company entitled for an office/laboratory project. 
  450,000 SF
• Lowe Enterprises 
  Represented client in the acquisition and subsequent sale of the development at 500 Terry Francois Blvd., Mission Bay, San Francisco. 
  270,000 SF
• Amgen, Inc. 
  Represented client in the sale of a biomanufacturing campus in Bothell, WA.
  150,000 SF
• Bristol-Myers Squibb 
  Arranged the sale of a surplus lab building in Silicon Valley on behalf of client.
  66,000 SF

Clients Represented