Echelon Corp., developer of communication equipment, plans to relocate its 175 employees from Palo Alto, Calif., to San Jose in a three-story, 75,000-sf build-to-suit headquarters designed by the San Francisco office of Washington-based Ai and Barry Swenson Builder. Pending approval from the City of San Jose, Swenson will begin construction by June 2000, with occupancy scheduled for July 2001.
Nvidia Corp. will relocate its 350 employees to a new four-building headquarters campus in Santa Clara. The 500,000-sf project consists of four 125,000-sf buildings and a two-level, 550-space parking garage at an estimated cost of $180 million. The first two buildings are scheduled for occupancy by June 2001; the third by July 2001; and the fourth by March 2002. Each building will accommodate 500 people. The developer is Sobrato Development Cos. Nvidia makes 3-D graphic chips for PCs.
EarthStation Netaxs, currently housed in 4,000 sf at Lee Park in Conshohocken, is relocating to a 33,000-sf structure at the Park with an option on an additional adjacent 33,000 sf. The ISP houses and monitors its clients' server computers that access the Internet. Special features at the new site include closed-circuit TV, site cams enabling clients to view their servers, and a sleeping area for employees staffing the data center 24 hours a day.
Cisco Systems Inc., based in San Jose, Calif., is considering the purchase of an additional 56-acre parcel in Boxborough where the company currently proposes building 1.8 million sf of office and research space at three sites that total 580 acres. The additional 56 acres would provide room for another 240,000-sf office facility for a total of more than two million sf in the area. Total costs are estimated at more than $200 million.
Cisco Systems will open three new buildings at its campus in Research Triangle Park, N.C. A standard open floorplan, cubicle seating, standard furniture, and high-speed network connections at each desk characterize the new facilities. There are no offices along the perimeter of the buildings; the only hard-walled offices are located in the interior of the structures.
Sybase Inc., based in Emeryville, Calif., is considering the construction of a new corporate campus in Dublin for its 1,200 local employees. Two six-story buildings with a total of 420,000 sf would be built by Wilcox Development Services of Dallas on a 14.5-acre site at the Emerald Glen development. If approval from the city of Dublin is secured, construction could begin by the end of 2000. Estimates put the price tag at $50 to $60 million, excluding land costs.
Intel Corp. hopes to locate a new campus in the city of Austin that may function as their largest US design center. The new site would accommodate up to 2,500 employees. Intel is based in Santa Clara, Calif.
Cisco Systems, inc. is considering a 600,000-sf expansion consisting of office and research space at two sites in Boxborough. Cisco is also planning a 650,000-sf office complex in Littleton, Mass. The combined space at the three sites would approach 1.2 million sf, and would be built over a period of several years.
Cisco, based in San Jose, Calif., manufactures Internet equipment.
Worldweb.net has chosen OP*X (Oldham + Partners) to design its new 38,000-sf office in Alexandria. OP*X is based in Washington.
Network Appliance Inc. moved into its new 206,000-sf headquarters in summer 1999, with two buildings at the site still under construction. Late April is the scheduled completion date for all three buildings, which will total 360,000 sf.
Now the company is seeking approval for an additional 215,000 sf across the street, where Network would remodel one existing building, demolish a second and build a new one. Network manufactures network file servers.
Akami Technologies Inc. plans to relocate to a new 108,000-sf state-of-the-art headquarters currently under construction at the former 1960's-era Polaroid Corp. office complex, which will house as many as 500 employees.
The Internet technology company envisions their offices designed to resemble the heart of the Internet. Akami has chosen Margulies & Associates of Boston to design and oversee the project.
