SAN JOSE — A Japan-based tech company will embark on a wide-ranging revamp of its San Jose campus, a move that is poised to solidify the office center as the firm’s major Silicon Valley jobs and business hub.
Renesas Electronics is planning a big-time upgrade of its primary office complex at 6024 Silver Creek Valley Road ln south San Jose, documents on file with the city of San Jose show.
The improvements will take place within an office and research complex that totals about 248,900 square feet, according to the San Jose planning documents.
“Renesas has made a number of acquisitions over the past few years,” a Renesas Electronics spokesperson said in comments emailed to this news organization. “As part of the integration of those organizations, we are consolidating to the Silver Creek site.”
The interior construction work to accomplish the upgrades is slated to occur inside a three-story office and research complex that consists of three adjacent buildings that are a single large structure.
“The new work will be to construct new labs, test floor, offices, conferences rooms, phone rooms mother’s rooms, break rooms and restrooms,” the planning documents state.
Much of the respective interiors of the three buildings will be demolished for the project, according to the proposal.
“Renesas currently occupies the building and will continue to occupy the building during construction, except for the area that is under construction,” Renesas stated in the city files.
The renovation will be completed in three to four phases, the Renesas spokesperson said. The first phase is due to be completed at the end of 2024. The final phase will be finished around the end of 2025.
New partitions, ceilings, lighting, doors and plumbing fixtures will be added. All of the existing rooftop mechanical equipment will be replaced, according to the planning documents.
At one point, Renesas was considering the construction of a brand-new building on the Silver Creek Valley Road campus. That building would have totaled 124,000 square feet.
Those plans, however, were very preliminary proposals and subject to change, which is what has occurred. The focus now will be on the wall-to-wall upgrades of the existing three-building complex.
“This will satisfy our needs at this time,” the Renesas spokesperson said. “We will continually assess our needs and react accordingly.”
Renesas is no stranger to consolidation: In 2003, the company was born through the combination of key segments of the semiconductor units of legendary Japan-based corporations Hitachi and Mitsubishi. Further consolidations emerged in 2010, when NEC Electronics merged into Renesas.
In Silicon Valley, the company acquired Intersil and IDT.
Renesas believes the upgrade of the complex and the gathering of employees from other parts of the Bay Area into a single campus will greatly benefit the tech firm and its workers.
“It will reduce costs for the company and will allow employees to interact with their colleagues more effectively,” the Renesas spokesperson stated in the emailed comments.