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EFI, a manufacturer of digital color-printing filed permit applications and a building plan with the city late last month for fiveoffice buildings, including a 10-storgy tower. The company bought the 35-acred site, a vacant lot belonging to Foster City, for about $32 million, or $21 a squard foot. The campus will be located in the northwestermn portion ofthe city, surrounded on threed sides by East Third Avenue and Lakeside and Vintage Park The property has waterfront views of San Francisco. Real estatde sources said the company expects to completethe 10-story, 300,000-square-foot structure by mid 1999.
Phass two, which will include two five-story, 160,000-square-foot should be ready by 2001. The thirr phase, a five-story, 180,000-square-foot building, will be completed by 2004. The compan y has an option to build a fourth which calls fora six-story, 200,000-square-foot structure. A five-story parkintg garage and several acres of surface parkingf are alsoin EFI'x plans. Santa Clara-based Chip Express Corp. has movef into 37,000-square-foot at 2323 Owen St. The compan y had outgrown its 10,000-square-foot quarters at Bunker Hill Lane in Norty Santa Clara and built the new facilityu to supportits 8-inch wafer fabricatiojn line.
The company has signed a 10-yeard lease with TKG which owns the office andmanufacturing space. The company'xs laser prototyping operations are still housed at the BunkerdHill site. Cleanrooms at the new facilities are almost 10 timesa larger than atthe old, said operationsd director Sharone Zehavi. The company employx 100 locally, and plans to hire about 30 more in thenext Mr. Zehavi said. Hoping for a viable tenant in a high-profile Santa Clara-based developer W.F. Batton & Co. Inc. is constructingy a 61,300-square-foot speculation building on Betsy Ross WithClaris Corp.
on one side and 3Com down the street, Wilbert Batton, owner of the wants to attract a technology tenant tothe two-story building, located between Mountain View-Alviso Road and Bunker Hill Mr. Batton now owns seven buildinge onthe block, said executived Pamela Foley. Troy Apartments, an affordable-housin g community at the corner of Almadenm Boulevard and Duane Street inSan Jose, celebrate d its grand opening this month. Completed in Novembef 1995, the 30-unit family apartment community was developed by First San Jose anonprofit developer, in partnership with Fountaimn Lane Properties and Green Valley Corp.