Google’s Growing Empire May Transform Biggest City in Bay Area
- Alphabet in talks to buy 40 acres of land for San Jose campus
- Opponents fear affordability hit in already-pricey area
Apple, Google and Amazon Seem Unstoppable. Now What?
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Far more people sleep in San Jose than work there, a challenge for the California city’s tax coffers. Now officials are hoping a massive property sale to Google will change that.
Google parent Alphabet Inc., already Silicon Valley’s biggest property owner, is negotiating to buy 40 acres of city-owned land for a new campus near San Jose’s SAP Center and Diridon train station. It would bring as many as 20,000 jobs over the next 10 to 12 years. Even more important, it would include thousands of residential units -- with 15 to 20 percent deemed “affordable” -- to a region starved for housing.