San Jose on Friday began a formal effort to Google and up to 20,000 jobs into a transit village and mega office campus in the city’s downtown with a staff proposal to sell 16 parcels to the s…
SAN JOSE — San Jose on Friday formally launched a quest to bring Google and up to 20,000 jobs into a transit village and mega office campus in the city’s downtown with a staff proposal to sell more than a dozen parcels to the search giant.
“Google intends to develop a large scale mixed-use Transit Oriented Development to serve as an office and research campus consistent with a redeveloped Diridon Station Area, ” according to a staff memo prepared for a vote of the San Jose City Council slated for June 20.
Mountain View-based Google would obtain 16 parcels from the city of San Jose and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency’s successor, if the negotiations bear fruit, according to a proposed exclusive negotiations agreement released by the city on Friday.
Google and San Jose are eyeing a complex that could include more than 6 million square feet of office and research space, potentially making it the company’s largest collection of tech offices. If built, it would be larger than the tech titan’s roughly 3.1-million-square-foot Mountain View headquarters, known as the Googleplex, which currently is its biggest U. S. work hub.
“We’ re excited to have the support of the San Jose city council as we evaluate our options at Diridon Station, ” Google said in comments emailed to this news organization.
