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- Real estate company Paragon just released its July report — it suggests that the market is in fact cooling. [Paragon]
- Renderings are now available for a nine-story building set to be constructed on Market Street near Valencia. [SocketSite]
- A three-story Victrola — those old-timey, record player-like devices — is being built for Burning Man. [Curbed]
- A San Mateo man just pleaded guilty to operating 40 brothels in the Bay Area. The women in the brothels had reportedly been mostly trafficked from Asia. [KRON 4]
- Peter Lawrence Kane of the Weekly was forced to apologize today after being called out for writing about the "teenagers of color" who staffed a restaurant he reviewed. [SF Weekly] [Eater] [Twitter] [Twitter]
- Oakland City council is advocating for an ordinance that would regulate Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms. [Business Times]
- Felony drug arrests are down (by a lot) statewide following the enacting of Proposition 47. Misdemeanor drug arrests, meanwhile, are up. [East Bay Express]
- Approximately $114 million worth of marijuana plants were discovered on an island in the Delta. As you would probably expect, officials destroyed all 38,133 plants. [East Bay Times]
