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Zillow Group, Inc. (ZG) Q2 2017 Earnings Conference Call August 08, 2017 17:00 P.M. ET Executives RJ Jones – VP, Investor Relations Spencer Rascoff – CEO Kathleen Philips – CFO Analysts Ronald Josey - JMP Securities Mark Mahaney - RBC Capital Markets Unidentified Analyst - Sli.do © Provided by Seeking Alpha Earnings Call Transcripts Michael Graham - Canaccord Genuity Christian Rice - Needham & Company Hayden Blair - Stephens Inc. Brian Nowak - Morgan Stanley Mark May - Citigroup Lloyd Walmsley - Deutsche Bank Bradley Erickson - KeyBanc Capital Markets Shyam Patil - Susquehanna Financial Group Heath Terry - Goldman Sachs Presentation Operator Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Zillow Group's Second Quarter 2017 Earnings Call . At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. I wou...

  August 12, 2017 -- San Francisco, California (PRWEB) August 12, 2017 US Capital Partners Inc. has been engaged as the exclusive advisor to New Cities Investment Partners , LLC for the capital formation for a $110MM mixed-use real estate development named the ?Maple & Main Project' in Hayward, located in California's flourishing San Francisco Bay Area . To showcase this project, US Capital will be hosting an investor event on Thursday, August 17th between 6pm and 8pm at the iconic Bently Reserve . This landmark, known as the former San Francisco Federal Reserve building , is located at 301 Battery Street. This will be an opportunity to meet the management team and join the discussion around Maple & Main's conception. The Maple & Main Project has been unanimously approved by the Hayward City Council and is expected to be a catalyst for downtown revitalization. The project is located at Main, Maple & A Street on a 3.9 acre site four blocks from the BART, ...

A universally acknowledged truth about living in New York City is that there's very little space to go around. What passes for an entire apartment in Manhattan is considered a walk-in closet in Des Moines. This dearth of square footage has resulted in a couple notable phenomenons : Namely, pocket-emptying rents and some—let's just call it—creative uses of space. I recently glimpsed one particularly unusual vision of our inevitable micro-living future. Twenty floors up in a luxury midtown Manhattan studio apartment , a hulking piece of furniture sat pressed against the wall. From the front it looked like an entertainment console with built in shelving. From the side, it appeared to be a regular bookshelf, save for a small button. At nine feet tall, five feet wide and seven feet long, the thing took up nearly a fourth of the apartment's main living area , leaving just enough space for what could either be a livingroom or bedroom, but definitely not both. "This is Ori,...

The city of East Palo Alto , a wedge of modest houses and light industrial sites in the heart of Silicon Valley , has been passed by in the great tech boom . A historically black area , it has seen a big Hispanic influx in the past two decades, with more than three out of four residents now coming from one of those two groups. It is still living down its reputation, gained a quarter of a century ago, as the murder capital of the US: one out of every 571 of its residents was the victim of a homicide in a single year. Things have improved since then. But over the same period, it has become the poor neighbour to some of the world's richest companies. In one of the ultimate signs of the divide between the haves and have-nots of the western US, the municipal government of East Palo Alto didn 't own the rights to draw more from the state's water reserves, which it would need in order to grow. In June this year, it took a gift of cash, from the private foundation set up by Mar...