INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY SHOWCASE

Google California Land Acquisitions

Known California Land / Property Acquisitions by Google (or Alphabet Entities)

• Gilroy, Rossi Lane (~40 acres, agricultural land)
  • Use: Tree nursery / green buffer for landscaping campuses.
  • Paid: ~$2.1 million.
  • Zoning: Large-scale agricultural.
  • Status: Owned; not developed as industrial/office.
• Sunnyvale, NetApp Buildings & Land (East Java Drive, Geneva Drive, etc.)
  • Use: Office buildings + land (existing built property) and some vacant land. Likely expansion or campus consolidation.
  • Paid: ~$210 million for several buildings + land.
• Playa Vista, Los Angeles (~12 acres)
  • Use: Vacant land near YouTube Space LA; acquisition likely for expansion / office campus adjacencies.
  • Paid: ~$120 million.
• Britannia Shoreline Technology Park, Mountain View (~795,000 SF / office campus)
  • Use: Office campus (11-building complex), mostly occupied; Google acquired it to consolidate office space.
  • Paid: ~$1 billion.
• Mountain View / Adjacent business park (~51.8 acres)
  • Status / Use: Large business-park purchase near Mountain View HQ (office campus / expansion land).
  • Key details: Reported as a ~51.8-acre business park purchase valued at approx. $1B in combined acquisitions near HQ (part of Google’s major Bay Area land buys).
  • Confidence: High (major media / trade press).
• San Jose / Downtown parcels (aggregate ~80+ acres over time)
  • Status / Use: Multiple downtown San Jose parcels acquired for planned campus expansion — sites remain largely undeveloped or in phased plans.
  • Key details: Over recent years Google acquired many downtown parcels (totaling roughly 80 acres in some reports) tied to its South Bay campus ambitions; some ground disturbance/clearing occurred and remediation/settlement activity has been reported.
• Goleta / Santa Barbara County (~7.6 acres)
  • Status / Use: Purchase reported (land near Goleta) — acquired after pulling back from other developments; use uncertain/strategic holding, as part of Google’s portfolio holdings.
  

Short take on California Holdings

• These large-parcel land holdings show institutional, long-range land acquisition strategies by Google: some parcels are immediate operational projects (data centers), others are strategic holdings (nurseries, campus adjacency) that may never convert to standard industrial.

Google Texas Land Acquisitions

Texas — Large Parcel / Data Center & Campus Investments

• Midlothian / Ellis County, TX — multiple large parcels (Midlothian campus / previous 375-acre phase)
  • Status / Use: Established data center campus; ongoing expansion projects in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
  • Key details: Google has built and expanded a major data-center campus in Midlothian (multi-phase, multi-hundred-acre investments and multi-hundred-million-dollar projects).
  
• Ellis County / Red Oak area — ~165 acres (reported site acquisitions)
  • Status / Use: Large-tract purchase reported for additional data-center development (utility/site work underway).
  • Key details: Reports indicate purchases of ~165 acres for another major data-center build; county approvals and utility infrastructure work reported in local outlets.
  
• Dallas / North Texas region — ongoing land buys and $1B+ investment
  • Status / Use: Multiple site purchases and expansions for both data centers and cloud region infrastructure.
  • Key details: Google announced $1B+ investments and has added sites/capacity across the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (including Red Oak / Midlothian / Fort Worth assets).
  

Links

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