Ideal Sites for Your Business

With a variety of industrial areas, innovation centers, office parks and neighborhood business districts within the city, San Jose can offer numerous different locations that meet a company’s individual needs.

Downtown San Jose

Anchored by technology giant Adobe Systems's headquarters, Downtown San Jose is home to a wide variety of businesses. Downtown houses approximately 20,000 daytime office workers and boasts a rich mix of retail businesses.

By locating in “Silicon Valley’s City Center,” downtown businesses are within walking distance of the city’s Convention Center, state-of-the-art HP Pavilion, historic arts and entertainment venues, and a diverse collection of more than 100 restaurants. Downtown San Jose is also home to a number of high-rise residential units, offering employees an opportunity to enjoy a truly urban lifestyle. Learn more about the amenities offered in Downtown San Jose.

The Redevelopment Agency’s Downtown Office and Retail programs can provide special assistance and incentives to relocating or expanding businesses within the downtown project area.

Other Prime Business Locations

San Jose has a number of areas throughout the city with an abundance of space for all types of companies and business uses.

In particular, San Jose's redevelopment areas have attracted numerous businesses over the past three decades with the help of special assistance and incentives from the City and Redevelopment Agency (view a map of the Redevelopment Agency Industrial Project Areas listed below).

• North San Jose, also known as the Innovation Triangle and Rincon de Los Esteros, is home to 1,400 of the most well-known technology companies in the world, and more than two million square feet in retail development opportunities.
• Edenvale Technology Park, located in South San Jose, is rapidly becoming the center of the region’s growing life science and solar industries.
• The Monterey Corridor has one of the largest concentrations of employers in San Jose, with a mix of heavy and light industrial businesses, service providers and suppliers.
• The Julian-Stockton area houses a mix of heavy industrial users and businesses offering support services to local industry clusters.
• Olinder has traditionally been home to heavy industrial business facilities.

Other San Jose areas that are prime for new or relocating businesses include:

• Alviso, the bay-side community that is home to top global brands including Tivo, Harmonic and Boston Scientific.
• The International Business Park, located in with immediate access to light rail, retail amenities, Hwy's 880 & 680, is home to office, R&D and manufacturing facilities.
• The Evergreen industrial area in southeast San Jose offers a wide variety of nearby housing stock as well as conveniently located shopping and restaurant amenities.
• Surrounded by hills in the southern part of San Jose, North Coyote Valley represents a totally new industrial area intended to support the development of large, single-user industrial sites within a high prestige industrial area.
  

Neighborhood Locations

San Jose has hundreds of neighborhoods that offer businesses a great location to set up shop. In particular, the Redevelopment Agency has established and supports close to a dozen Neighborhood Business Districts and Neighborhood Business Clusters throughout the city. There are also a number of neighborhoods where local business associations have been formed to support and promote business interests in their specific community.