[CPEO-BIF] Mountain View (CA) office developments

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New projects buck the trend
Major office developments coming to Whisman, Bayshore areas

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
July 25, 2008

While sales of commercial real estate have slowed nationwide, Mountain 
View is experiencing a surge of new office development for the first 
time since the dot-com boom.

The city has recently managed to attract seven major new office 
developments, including five major high density office projects in the 
North Whisman Area, Google's first-ever new building, and a high density 
addition to the "tech farm" on Evelyn Avenue just east of the train 
station.

...

Two weeks ago the City Council approved rezoning for an 
87,000-square-foot office building at 331 Fairchild Drive. The project 
involves demolishing a single-story building once used by Fairchild to 
manufacture semiconductors, which left behind the carcinogen TCE in the 
groundwater and soil.

Unsafe TCE vapors were measured in the old building just a few years 
ago, but with the new development the city is requiring a long list of 
mitigations. It is possible that Nokia, which occupies the property next 
door, may expand into the new building.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=748

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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