Description:
The City of
Mountain View is served by the Caltrain rail system, which runs from San Francisco to Gilroy. It also served by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, including various bus lines and the Mountain View - Winchester light rail line. Moffett Federal Airfield is located just north of Mountain View, but its use is restricted to aeromedical, government and military users. The nearest major airports are Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Mountain View has over 5,000 businesses--from sole proprietorships to large corporations. Mountain View is a prime location in which to do business. The central location provides easy freeway access to Highways 101 and 85, and the entire San Francisco Bay Area and northern California cities. Whether you are a new venture business or an existing business looking to expand in this growing area, Mountain View is a great place to watch your business grow. Quality office, industrial or commercial space is available; Mountain View is located at the north end of Highway 85, where it meets Highway 101. The historic route El Camino Real also runs through Mountain View. Mountain View is bounded to the northwest by Palo Alto, to the southwest by Los Altos, to the southeast by Sunnyvale, and to the northeast by the San Francisco Bay. Its great access allows many companies to search for
commercial space in Mountain View.
Companies who look in this city also look in nearby cities such as
Sunnyvale,
Palo Alto, and
Los Altos.
Retail space in Mountain View:
Retail space in Mountain View is offered for sale and for lease and there are many local real estate brokers who have property listings for a company to view. You can quickly get a quote for a
sublease or
direct space by using
Rofo. There are many regional malls in Mountain View that offer a variety of shopping and
Rofo can help point you towards the optimal vacant space.
Office space in Mountain View: Mountain View is attracting small office users to their
downtown office space. Currently the downtown area offer
office listings for lease and
office listings for sale. There are several furnished and wired spaces available as well as serviced office solutions. Two new office buildings have been built with Fenwick & West LLP and Nuasis as anchor tenants which has given downtown Mountain View the anchor it needs to create the latest Silicon Valley high-tech hub. Some other notable companies that call Mountain View home include Google (the infamous Googleplex is within city limits), Actel Corporation, Drexler Technology, Microsoft, Netscape/AOL, & VeriSign. Mountain View offers
high rise office space,
low rise office space,
lofts, mixed use space and converted warehouse office space.
Warehouse space in Mountain View: Mountain View’s
industrial developments allow businesses from a start-up to a multi-national company find their space needs on a for sale or for lease basis. Many small warehouses exist in Mountain View and can be found on
Rofo.com. Mountain View’s central location offers warehouse space near Interstate 101. Mountain View has
storage spaces,
warehouse spaces,
distribution spaces, and
manufacturing spaces. Mountain View is also active with biotech companies. It is seeing one of the biggest increases in Life Science companies--from 40+ to 67 in the few years. Companies such as Boston Scientific, Neuropace, and ChemoCentryx have added to Mountain View's cachet as one of the country's largest Life Science backbones.
Lab space is important to the city of Mountain View and there are several good spaces available to start up companies.
Quick Market Stats:
There's roughly 6,000,000 square feet of
office space with a rough overall vacancy rate of 7%. The average asking rates for office space is $2.75(fs).
The R&D space market is roughly 12,000,000 square feet and has an overall vacancy rate of just 10%. The
average lease rate is $2.00 per square foot per month.
The industrial space market is roughly 2,500,000 square feet and has an overall vacancy rate of just 3%. The average lease rate is $1.00 per square foot per month.