My name is Carter Kennedy and I'm with the Colliers SOMA Team.

Our team is the longest operating brokerage team to specialize exclusively in serving the companies and organizations that reside in San Francisco's South of Market (SOMA) Submarket.  Over our combined 55 years of experience working in SOMA, we've developed deep roots in the neighborhood, and an unparalleled intimate knowledge of the area's landlords, tenants, city officials, and hidden opportunities available exclusively to SOMA tenants.

Our clients include Autodesk, Cuban Council, Dolby Laboratories, nCircle, ON24, Oracle, and Techsoup Global.  We've successfully provided real estate advice that has impacted over 20,000 SOMA employees - that's more than 4 million square feet.  From 1,500 square foot start-up headquarters to large-scale build-to-suit developments, we've done it all. 

An excellent summary of why companies want to be in SOMA was recently presented in the San Francisco Business Times which reported “The Wikimedia Foundation, the free, user-edited online encyclopedia, announced it will move its headquarters to San Francisco's SoMa at the beginning of 2008, the foundation said. ‘San Francisco is the center of high-tech in the United States, and will give the Foundation access to a rich array of resources, including best-in-breed online talent, top-tier universities, world-class support services and major media,’ said Florence Devouard, who chairs the board of the Wikimedia Foundation, in a statement carried by the Romenesko media blog. ‘We are all very excited about the move, and I know the Wikimedia Foundation will flourish in the Bay Area.’ 'San Francisco won out over six cities the foundation was considering over the past year.'”

Colliers SOMA Team services include:

Lease review and audit, Weighing to buy or to lease, Market surveys, Parking surveys, Consolidation or Expansion analysis, Understanding the Enterprise Zone incentives, Understanding Operating Expense pass-throughs and many other facility / real estate issues.

Thank you for taking a moment to learn more about the Colliers SOMA Team.  We welcome the opportunity to learn more about your organization as well as share the latest trends and happenings within SOMA.

We know SOMA.

Sincerely,

Carter Kennedy

415.288.7846

carter.kennedy@colliers.com

www.somateam.com

• Peter Pomeroy October 31, 2007

  Carter- Thank you for your pitch. I will be contacting you shortly to discuss our real estate needs.
  Peter