Category: South San Francisco Commercial Real Estate (1)

Google’s Medical Technology Division, Verily, Subleases Large Office Campus in South San Francisco

Source: CoStar
By: Steve Wells
Date Posted: March 9, 2016

Verily, formerly called Google Life Sciences, has subleased 407,000 square feet from Amgen to establish a separate headquarters in South San Francisco for the new Google division, which is gearing up to provide pioneering technology for medical research and devices.

Verily will occupy the former Onyx Pharmaceuticals office campus consisting of three Class A office buildings located at 249, 259, and 269 E. Grand Ave.

249 E Grand

The planned move 30 miles north from Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters, will place the new firm within a global hub for the biotech industry. It also takes a big chunk of the nearly 700,000 square feet of excess space Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) is seeking to sublet in the area. Amgen closed its Onyx Pharmaceuticals subsidiary last year after acquiring the cancer drug developer in 2013 for $9.7 billion.

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., (NYSE: ARE), a real estate investment trust that focuses on science and technology campuses in urban locations, owns the three buildings. The recently developed campus also has two land parcels representing nearly 400,000 square feet of potential expansion space.

An initial 400 Verily employees are expected to relocate to the new campus by the end of this year with the expectation that the total number at the location could grow to as many as 1,000 through future expansions.

“We are honored that Verily has chosen to expand into one of Alexandria’s world-class collaborative science and technology campuses,” said Stephen A. Richardson, chief operating officer and San Francisco regional market director of Alexandria. “Through our long-term relationship with Google, which dates back to 1998, we have been able to provide Verily with highly curated, innovative and integrated campus solution, which will help support its mission to use technology to better understand health, as well as prevent, detect and manage disease.”

Google Office Campus Sublease in SSF