Economy

With housing costs (and demand) soaring in San Francisco and elsewhere in the region, Oakland is poised to see a major surge in new residential rea...

A record turnout braved the Bay Area’s biggest storm in years to attend this Tuesday’s (Dec. 2) meeting of the Bay Area Council Water Committee...

The electrification and modernization of one of the region’s critical mass transit systems, which has been among the Bay Area Council’s signatu...

The Bay Area Council is excited to announce its first official trade and investment mission to India that will include high-level California execut...

BART today (Nov. 21) cut the ribbon on its new Oakland Airport Connector, which the Bay Area Council fought hard to help bring to fruition and batt...

Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman joined an august panel of business and policy leaders this week (Nov. 20) at the Milken Institute ...

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute this week (Nov. 19) hosted a presentation on UC Berkeley’s plans for the Berkeley Global Campus, a new in...

With cyber attacks mounting on vital public and private data and computer systems, the Council's Cybersecurity Committee discusses the need for mor...

In contrast to the rest of the Central Valley, the development of San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Merced counties is being driven more by the growth of...

Voters may not have turned out in force on Nov. 4, but those that did overwhelmingly agreed with the Bay Area Council on a handful of state and loc...