Google details 8M-square-foot mixed-use project in San Jose, California | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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Google's revised project proposal includes:

• Up to 7.3 million square feet of office space.
• 4,000 units of new housing.
• Up to 500,000 square feet for retail, culture and arts spaces.
• 100,000 square feet of event space, hotel rooms (up to 300), and limited-term corporate accommodations (up to 800 rooms).
• 15 acres of parks and open space.

More than half of the Downtown West project will be allocated for residential and public space and include features such as childcare centers, outdoor learning centers and ecological viewing stations, said Alexa Arena, Google’s district lead for San Jose in a video.

The design “leans heavily on the desire for people to have access to nature even in center cities,” she said. “We think this is critically important to help people live healthy and resilient lives.”

Australia-based contractor Lendlease will provide master planning, entitlement and development services for the project, as part of the contractor’s $15 billion deal with Google to develop 15 million square feet of residential, retail, hospitality and other projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

The partnership with Lendlease is part of Google's commitment to build 20,000 homes in Silicon Valley to help ease the persistent shortage of housing in the area. 

Through three years of community meetings and informational fairs, the city and Google have solicited community input. This feedback helped shape the final design, Arena said.

Google also released a list of the design and engineering companies working on the project. They are:

• SITELAB urban studio: urban design
• Heatherwick Studio: architecture
• Grimshaw Architects: architecture
• Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF): architecture
• Fougeron Architecture: architecture
• Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB): architecture
• SHoP Architects: Architecture
• Sherwood Design Engineers: civil and infrastructure
• HMH Engineers: civil