SAN JOSE—As major tech companies continue to shape the Silicon Valley office landscape, politicians, business leaders and real estate professionals around the country are somewhat obsessed with the Amazon HQ2 RFP process. It seems unlikely that Amazon will select Silicon Valley where the competition for the planned workforce of 50,000 employees and housing is too costly.
If Amazon did opt for Silicon Valley, it might want to approach Google about a location as it is the top property owner in the Valley. While Google's home base is Mountain View, it has a rapidly expanding footprint in Sunnyvale and may be heading to downtown San Jose thereafter.
Under the guise of CBRE Global Investors, Google has made more than 52 South Bay property purchases totaling $820 million during the last three years in Sunnyvale as well as additional direct acquisitions, according to Savills Studley. Many of the purchases were concentrated between Mathilda Avenue, West Caribbean Drive and Highway 237.
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Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.
