Behind the scenes at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s tech extravaganza – SFChronicle.com

  hearst/templates/premium/article/content/gallery.tpl e hearst/templates/premium/article/content/gallery.tpl It was the week before Dreamforce, the conference extravaganza organized by Salesforce, and the tech company’s design team was listening to a recording of animals chirping and cooing in the woods. “I’m wondering if we could tone down the woodpecker a little,” said Brigitte Donner, chairwoman of Dreamforce, which will fill…

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Eastline project, bigger than Salesforce Tower, seeks to transform Oakland – SFChronicle.com

Two blocks north of Oakland’s 19th Street BART Station are a shuttered burger stand, a public parking garage and short commercial buildings. The barren site at 2100 Telegraph Ave. could turn into one of the largest developments the city has ever seen. Named Eastline by its backers, the 1.57 million-square-foot office project would be bigger,…

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