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We're excited to see more great press for our new CFO, Lino Campanile, from the San Francisco Business Times!

As Deborah Acosta leaves her role as Chief Innovation Officer for the City of San Leandro, she shares her goals for her new venture, the San Leandro Women’s Innovation LAB and the inspiration she found in #TruthisBeauty at our San Leandro Tech Campus. [At the grand opening of SLTC], as CIO of the City of San Leandro, I announced a new project that was already underway: the creation of a San Leandro Women’s Tech Incubator. I spoke of the promise of new industries and jobs for San Leandro and Truth Is Beauty’s invitation to imagine a world where woman are safe. Not only physically safe, but economically empowered: a world that intentionally creates a level playing field for women and those who self-identify as women to grow sustainable, well-capitalized businesses.

Congratulations to Westlake’s new CFO, Lino Campanile! Lino has institutional-level real estate experience we were looking for as we reevaluate our portfolio and make plans for the next generation of the company.

How BART’s extension into San Jose will transform the South Bay by retrofitting a city built for cars to a city built for people. The train station is the catalyst for growth, Teresa Alvarado, SPUR San Jose said. It becomes the reason businesses and residents want to be downtown. They want that mobility, and it’s an economic driver.

Our Senior Vice President, Jessica Smith, is honored by Bisnow as one of their Bay Area Power Women who have helped shape Bay Area cities, neighborhoods, businesses and lifestyles.

A busy street in Santiago, Chile was transformed into a pedestrianized art-filled promenade, the first of its kind in South America, but it’s future is uncertain.

Earth day is this Sunday! Mercury News has a list of events to help you celebrate in the Bay Area.

Departing San Leandro Chief Information Officer Deborah Acosta reflects on her impact in an interview with state scoop, including how she was inspired to create an incubator space for women, partly by MarcoCochrane and #TruthisBeauty. Long story short, Truth Is Beauty is now standing in San Leandro. The day she was unveiled [in 2016] is the day I said we would create an incubator space for women a world that is safe for women is a world where women have equal opportunity to resources.

Sunday Streets in the Bayview/Dogpatch is back this weekend! Enjoy 3+ miles of car-free community space for you and your neighborhood to enjoy. Come checkout the Activity Hubs on on 22nd Street, Cargo Way, Oakdale, and Bancroft Streets for FREE fun, family-friendly activities offered by local nonprofits, community groups, and small businesses.

New simulation software, Urban Footprint, led by Peter Calthorpe and Joe DiStefano, allows planners and communities to see potential impacts of their plans. When communities can see comprehensive data about multiple plans for the future, the startup’s founders say, it becomes easier to compare them and reach consensus.

Two new Burning Man sculptures made their debut in San Jose last month as part of City of San Jose - City Gov't’s Playa to Paseo partnership. Tara Mechani by Dana Albany at Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park and Ursa Mater by Mr and Mrs Ferguson at Paseo de San Antonio replace Sonic Runway outside of City Hall.

101 best movies about cities by Curbed will keep you busy exploring urban stories on screen. There are documentaries and shorts showcasing city life; science fictions and dystopias imagining our sometimes-bleak urban future; and cinematic classics-turned-totems for the places we live and love.

With so much interest in San Jose, can the Guadalupe River Park become the central green space of downtown? SPUR will attempt to revive the park using success stories like The High Line as examples.

No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, brings Burning Man art out of the desert and into the gallery in Washington DC at the Renwick Gallery. An 18-foot replica of #TruthisBeauty by Marco Cochrane is on display at the through September 16th. The show will be the first ever major exhibition dedicated solely to the art and culture of that thing in the desert, as it has come to be known, and will feature artworks and relics from the gathering both within the gallery and outside in various locations within the museum’s neighborhood.