Google Meadow Point office buildings at 4300 and 4400 North First Street in the Alviso district of San Jose, seen in a drone view on April 8, 2026. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
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.”
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan speaks during an event to officially open Google’s Meadow Point campus in the Alviso district of north San Jose. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
Workers take a break to play ping-pong at the Google Meadow Point campus in north San Jose’s Alviso district, May 11, 2026. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
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.
Lobby area of Building 7 at the Google Meadow Point Campus in San Jose’s Alviso district. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
Scott Foster, vice president of global real estate, is seen in one of the outdoor areas of the tech company’s Meadow Point campus in San Jose. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
“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.
People work in a common area of an office building at the Google Meadow Point tech campus in north San Jose, May 11, 2026. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
Jen Fitzpatrick, Google Core senior vice president, speaks during an event to formally open the tech company’s Meadow Point campus in the Alviso district of north San Jose, May 11, 2026. (George Avalos/Bay Area News Group)
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.”
A can bearing Google’s name and one of the tech company’s mottos is displayed on a wall within Building 8 of the tech company’s Meadow Point campus in the Alviso district of north San Jose, seen on May 11, 2026. (George Avalos/Bay Area News Group)
Telephone box with a Google Voice logo at the company’s Meadow Point campus in the Alviso district of north San Jose, seen on May 11, 2026. (George Avalos/Bay Area News Group)
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.