Google widens holdings within downtown San Jose transit village footprint

SAN JOSE — Google has widened its holdings within the footprint of the search giant’s proposed transit village in downtown San Jose with the purchase of a large industrial lot near the SAP Center.

A site that hosts the operations of J.A. Antuzzi Concrete & Antuzzi Concrete Designs on North Montgomery Street in downtown San Jose was bought on Nov. 5 by Google, according to Santa Clara County property documents.

The property at 333 N. Montgomery St. is a few doors away from the Julian Street entrance to the north parking spaces for the SAP sports and entertainment complex.

Google paid $5.15 million for the 0.5-acre lot, which also contains a 7,200-square-foot building where the Antuzzi Concrete firm operates its business as well as a showroom.

“J.A. Antuzzi Concrete & Antuzzi Concrete Designs is a full-service concrete contractor specializing in commercial, industrial, and residential construction,” according to the company’s website.

Conventional concrete jobs, along with retaining walls, driveways, stamped concrete, and walkways are among the services offered by the Antuzzi firm. The company also offers concrete resurfacing, according to the firm’s website.

Eventually, the Antuzzi site is expected to be bulldozed for the transit village, but the concrete business isn’t vacating the site for the time being. Google doesn’t expect to begin construction on any sections of the transit village until 2021, and not all of it would be built at the same time.

Downtown West, the name Google has given to the development, would consist of office buildings, homes, hotel facilities, shops, restaurants, entertainment hubs, and cultural centers where the Silicon Valley giant could employ 25,000 people.

Based on the current schedule laid out by the tech company, the San Jose City Council is slated by the end of 2020 to take a final vote to approve or reject the Downtown West development plan.

With the purchase of the Antuzzi property, the grand total for Google’s downtown San Jose purchases is approaching the $400 million mark for a shopping spree that began in December 2016 with Google’s purchase of an old telephone company building.

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Mountain View-based Google has spent roughly $393 million to purchase dozens of properties on the western edges of downtown San Jose near the Diridon train station and the SAP Center.

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