BANG . . . the holiday shopping season is off to a running start as Jamestown Properties pays $226.5M for several Back Bay retail properties.
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Compared to many real estate companies, Jamestown Properties is a low-profile player in the Bay Area. The company owns San Francisco's Pacific Place at Fourth and Market Streets, and it used to own 400 Post St., which it sold in 2007 . . .
As large as 20 Wal-Mart stores, Jamestown's Ponce City Market will be salvaged into a mixed-use cluster of restaurants, apartments, office space and perhaps even a rooftop amusement park by early 2014 . . .