San Jose likely wouldn’t be the first location that comes to mind when you think of where the Bay Area’s life-science companies are based.
San Jose is not yet on par with the Bay Area’s core biotechnology region, which stretches in an arc from South San Francisco to Emeryville. But BioCube, which offers lab facilities specifically designed for life-science companies, has a trump card, Gonzalez told the Business Journal. BioCube has offered facilities for nascent biotechnology companies out of 5941 Optical Court in South San Jose since 2004, when it was operating as BioCenter. It’s now fully leased out its 65,000-square-foot space there to 29 companies.
Gonzalez is in the process of finding tenants for his company’s North San Jose space. He’s already signed two, although he declined to name them. But response has been so good that BioCube is taking the second half of the building and expects to have the entire space leased by year end, he said.