While the timeline for Google's 80-acre Downtown West campus in San Jose has been pushed back, the tech giant is taking the first steps to establish an advanced research hub in a cluster of eight buildings it owns in the northern part of the city.

The eight properties, encompassing nearly 1.3M SF in the city's Alviso district, were acquired during Google's pre-pandemic acquisitions binge in San Jose.

Google has filed plans with the city to convert part of a vacant 233K SF industrial building at 5079 Disk Drive into an electronics R&D lab, according to documents submitted by the architectural firm AP+I Design, The Mercury News reported.

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