By TRD Staff
Publication Date: 2026-06-15 21:30:00
Some of Google’s former offices in Sunnyvale could become housing.
Dallas-based real estate firm Beam Reach has proposed demolishing the one-story research and development building at 215 Bordeaux Drive and replacing it with a 265-unit residential building, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported. Sunnyvale planning commissioners unanimously signed off on the proposal earlier this month.
Google listed the Bordeaux Drive property and others in Sunnyvale’s Moffett Park neighborhood for sublease three years ago as the Alphabet-owned tech giant sought to trim its office footprint. Beach Reach is looking to clear the building entirely and erect an eight-story multifamily building on the 2-acre site.
The plans from Beam Reach are the latest in the Bay Area to call for new life for underused office space. Sunnyvale boasts an office vacancy rate of 10.9 percent, well below the 15.4 percent vacancy rate across Silicon Valley, according to CBRE data cited by the Business Journal….