Google opens newest Bay Area campus, a tech hub where thousands could work

SAN JOSE — Google has officially launched its newest Bay Area campus, a San Jose tech hub that’s big enough to accommodate thousands of the search giant’s workers.

“This establishes north San Jose as an innovation hub for Google,” said Scott Foster, vice president and head of real estate and workplace services with Google. “This is our largest campus in San Jose.”

The tech titan’s new campus, known as Meadow Point, has sprouted near the corner of North First Street and Nortech Parkway in the Alviso district of north San Jose.

The San Jose innovation hub that Google has opened consists of 10 buildings, including six office buildings, a lab site and three industrial buildings. The office spaces are large enough for 3,000 to 4,000 Google employees and together total just under 800,000 square feet. Google is developing another building at the campus. That building should be open sometime in 2027.

“You have hit it out of the park with the environment you have created” at Meadow Point, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday to formally launch the tree- and plant-filled campus. “Google takes such pride in the spaces you create, how you treat the workers and the communities you are in.”

Meadow Point also includes three big industrial buildings where the search giant could conduct advanced research and laboratory work. Google employees have been working in some of the lab and research buildings on Disk Drive for a few years.

The tech company has located its Google Core team at the San Jose campus, according to Foster.

Google's Core team is responsible for building the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products, protecting users' online safety, and maintaining the company’s global IT infrastructure, said Jen Fitzpatrick, senior vice president for Google Core. The key products include Search, Gmail, and YouTube.

“It’s been a pleasure over the last few weeks to see our team dock at this gorgeous new space and to see the spark of new energy and collaboration that comes from being together in a new environment,” said Jen Fitzpatrick, senior vice president for Google Core Systems & Experiences.

Google provided a tour of the primary office complex within the campus, two curving office buildings whose centerpieces include a meadow, trees, plants, vegetation and open spaces that Mahan described as being like “a botanic garden.”

The buildings attempt to connect Google’s workers to that sort of environment.

“The views from the buildings are great,” said Eugene Hu, one of the project executives for the Meadow Point campus. “Everybody gets natural views.”

The two main office buildings, located at 4300 and 4400 North First St., hearken to Alviso’s man-made evolution, including boats and canneries, and the natural environment of the sloughs, marshes, creeks and rivers of the San Jose district at the south end of San Francisco Bay.

“This is a homage to the great community of Alviso,” San Jose City Councilmember David Cohen said. “What you have done on this campus is remarkable.”

City officials noted that the north San Jose area is the fastest-growing section of the Bay Area’s largest city.

“Google's Meadow Point campus reinforces that North San Jose remains one of Silicon Valley's premier employment centers,” said Bob Staedler, principal executive with Silicon Valley Synergy, a land-use consultancy.

Councilmember Cohen estimated that 20,000 housing units are being planned on San Jose’s north side.

Google employees began moving into the North First Street office buildings around April 27. More employees are expected to occupy the company’s Nortech Parkway buildings. The just-opened buildings include an array of unique touches.

“We are invested in the success of the city,” Google executive Foster said.

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This story was originally published May 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM.