SAN JOSE — A big office complex that would cater to one or more tech tenants and a fitness center is being eyed on a west San Jose site near the Santana Row and Valley Fair shopping centers.

The development would be located at Stevens Creek Boulevard and Saratoga Avenue in San Jose at the old Garden City Casino site, and has a working name of Life Time Plaza, according to visualizations and site layouts on file with city planners.

Among the key components of the proposal: a 250,000-square-foot office building, 140,000-square-foot fitness center and 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, city planning documents show.

The planning documents include conceptual renderings associated with Minneapolis-based Life Time, a fitness club operator whose web site describes the privately owned firm as “The Healthy Way of Life Company.” The city filing also shows that Dallas-based Cypress Equities is the project’s developer.

“We are excited about the proposed development,” said Glenn Miller, portfolio marketing director with Cypress Equities. “However, I want to emphasize it still is preliminary in its design. We believe this project will be an exciting addition to the city of San Jose.”

The planning documents also indicate that a tech company would be considered an ideal tenant for the office building.

At present, the site contains surface parking lots and four buildings. A bank branch, a vehicle dealership, a seafood and sushi restaurant and a gymnastics outlet are located on site.

If the project is approved, the developers intend to demolish the buildings to clear the way for the new complex.

“This is a very interesting design,” said Bob Staedler, principal executive with Silicon Valley Synergy, a land use and planning consultancy. “The project is set up to really invite people to go into the site.”

The project would be built a few blocks west of the retail malls. This part of San Jose is deemed attractive to tech companies.

Splunk has leased two big office buildings in Santana Row, enabling the cloud services tech firm to create a major San Jose outpost. Splunk’s new Silicon Valley offices would be larger than its San Francisco headquarters.

Cypress executives emphasized that considerable community meetings and involvement will be needed before the project is approved and can begin construction.

“We recognize the steps ahead, including fully engaging the community on our proposal,” Miller said. “Our hope is that, through our preliminary submittal, we will receive valuable feedback on our initial design as we prepare for a range of community meetings in early 2019.”