SAN JOSE — Google is taking first steps toward constructing a state-of-the-art research center in San Jose, expanding the technology giant's presence within the Bay Area's largest city.
According to San Jose city planners' filings, the search engine giant has submitted an application to construct in and near a big constructing within the Alviso neighborhood in northern San Jose.
Google hopes to make the improvements in an enormous constructing at 5079 Disk Drive in San Jose, in keeping with an announcement from AP+I Design, an architecture firm working with Google on the brand new major project.
In 2018, the constructing at 5079 Disk Drive became one in all three massive industrial and high-tech sites acquired by Google for $117.3 million in money.
The other two buildings that Google purchased in 2018 are positioned at 5087 and 5083 Disk Drive in San Jose.
“The scope of this project includes converting the currently vacant Cold Shell space into an electronics research and development laboratory,” AP+I Design explained in a letter the design firm sent to the San Jose Planning Department.
The entire constructing has an area of 233,000 square meters. As might be seen from the planning documents, the planned project is meant for a big a part of this constructing.
According to city documents, the work would upgrade roughly 87,500 square meters of the constructing.
The proposal states that Google is anticipated to employ dozens of individuals at this state-of-the-art research site.
“We are very pleased that Google is continuing to expand its research and development facility in San Jose,” said San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan.
Here are a number of the components of the planned operation in keeping with the planning documents:
— R&D test rack laboratory
— Thermal research and development laboratory
— Mechanical research and development laboratory
— A small office space with 44 desks
— A shipping and receiving area
“The room will be used primarily as a laboratory space,” Google's design partner AP+I Design explained within the planning documents. “We will have a total of 65 seats and very few visitors.”
Mountain View-based Google said it had no information in regards to the exact nature of the planned operation or which corporate entity could be positioned within the constructing.
In October 2018, the identical 12 months it purchased Disk Drive, Google paid $154.5 million for 2 curved office buildings at 4300 North First Street and 4400 North First Street. The two office buildings have a combined area of 377,000 square feet.
In May 2019, Google paid $137.5 million to buy three office buildings totaling 332,000 square feet at 4550 North First Street, 65 Nortech Parkway, and 95 Nortech Parkway.
Google's shopping spree within the Alviso district of San José a couple of years ago enabled the search engine giant to construct a cluster of eight office and research buildings – essentially a technology campus with a complete area of 120,000 square meters.
The tech giant also owns office constructing complexes on Tasman Drive in north San Jose and leases 4 office buildings near the corner of North First Street and Brokaw Road. Google occupies several buildings at each locations.
In addition to all of those San Jose locations, Google has proposed a mixed-use, transit-oriented neighborhood in town core called Downtown West—but it surely hasn't been built yet. Google is currently reviewing the precise timeline for the Downtown San Jose project.
Google also appears to be planning to construct an intensive power infrastructure on the 5079 Disk Drive research and office center in Alviso to power its research operations.
The power infrastructure can be housed in a depot that Google plans to construct next to the 5079 Disk Drive constructing.
“The new site will house substations, cooling towers and chillers,” Google’s proposal states.
The mayor said Google's activities in Alviso and elsewhere in San Jose are a reminder that local authorities must take steps to assist corporations expand within the Bay Area's largest city.
“We are doing our part to increase our housing supply and comprehensively improve our transportation infrastructure so that the world's leading innovators can grow here,” Mahan said.
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