Nvidia Grows With New Santa Clara Headquarters Building

Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters campus is set to grow with another hexagonal building.

The world’s most valuable company submitted an architectural review with the City of Santa Clara to build a 692,634-square-foot building at 2300 and 2350 Walsh Avenue, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported. Nvidia owns the site, as it does with other properties in the Santa Clara area it occupies.

The planned office building would resemble the hexagonal shape of its other signature headquarters buildings along San Tomas Expressway and Walsh Avenue. Those two geometric buildings — dubbed “Voyager” and “Endeavor” — are across San Tomas Expressway from 11 other Nvidia headquarters buildings and two parking structures. The new hexagonal building, like the buildings across San Tomas Expressway from Voyager and Endeavor, will be connected to the starship-like headquarters buildings at 2788 and 2880 San Tomas Expressway via a pedestrian bridge, according to planning documents filed with the city. Gensler, which designed the Voyager and Endeavor buildings, is the architect for the expansion project.

Nvidia’s proposed office building will sit on a 13-acre site currently home to a 10-building office and research campus, which the company bought earlier this year for $123 million. It marked one of the largest property deals of the year in the city.

The chip-making giant, bolstered by the exploding growth of the artificial intelligence sector in Silicon Valley and beyond, has been on a real estate tear this year, dropping more than $400 million on property surrounding its neighboring Voyager and Endeavor headquarters buildings. In July, it purchased a nearby four-building office complex at 2740 Scott Boulevard for $4.5 million. And in September, it bought a 125,000-square-foot building it was leasing at 2701 San Tomas Expressway from Sobrato for $83.2 million.

In May, the company filed plans to build a separate 324,000-square-foot structure at 2400 Condensa Street, behind Voyager and Endeavor across the San Tomas Aquino Creek, to house offices, lab space and parking.

While Nvidia’s real estate moves have largely been concentrated near its Santa Clara home, the company has also been moving into new territory — namely, its first-ever offices in San Francisco. Last month, the Jensen Huang-led corporation finalized a lease agreement for 45,000 square feet at 1090 Doctor Maya Angelou Lane, known as Building B of the Mission Rock mixed-use development co-owned in part by Tishman Speyer and the San Francisco Giants.

— Chris Malone Méndez