The $210-billion valued firm’s 61-story Salesforce Tower in its hometown, along with its offices at Irvine’s 200 Spectrum Center tower, earlier this month were the company’s first U.S. offices to reopen.
Other tech firms are following suit; Alteryx CEO Mark Anderson told the Business Journal earlier this month his $5B-valued analytics firm is looking to speed up plans to move into its new HQ at Irvine’s Spectrum Terrace.
“We’re hearing pretty loud and clear people want to get back to the office. People want to start collaborating,” Anderson said. See
Both Salesforce’s Irvine hub and Alteryx’s buildings are among the newer area offices built by Irvine Co., which has been emphasizing its portfolio’s clean-air designs and other wellness-focused amenities.
The landlord’s message appears to be resonating. Reports out of Silicon Valley last week indicated that Apple reached a deal to lease nearly 700,000 square feet of space at Sunnyvale’s Pathline Park, a new mid-rise complex built by Irvine Co. whose design is similar to Spectrum Terrace.
It’s the largest office lease reported in Silicon Valley in well over a year, according to local reports, and appears to be the largest office deal for a tech firm in the state in that time as well, edging out Anduril Industries’ 640K-SF lease at Costa Mesa’s The Press.
Anthony Hsieh has learned the art of cross-promotion.
In April, after his mortgage lender loanDepot said it had gotten the naming rights to the baseball park for the Miami Marlins, the Insider noted that few had connected Hsieh’s love of sportfishing to his $4.6B-valued Foothill Ranch-based firm’s choice of MLB partner.
The ties were made clearer last week, when War Heroes on Water, the philanthropic sportfishing tournament event created by Hsieh to honor combat wounded veterans, announced a dedicated event at loanDepot park this summer.
WHOW Night at loanDepot park runs July 5 when the Marlins host the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hundreds of veterans are expected to attend.
“Our veterans have made significant and, in many cases, life-changing sacrifices for our freedom,” Hsieh said. “It is our responsibility as Americans to honor these great heroes and show them how much we care.”
The actual WHOW sportsfishing event takes place locally this October. This year’s event aims to raise $1M.
What’s keeping more people in OC from getting the vaccine? Solvable communication issues, suggests a report this month from the Grand Jury of OC critiquing the county’s pandemic preparation.
As of September 2020, “information at the [COVID] testing sites was only in English even though 45% of Orange County residents are limited in English language proficiency,” noted the report, saying that issue has carried on to the distribution of vaccines.
Residents with limited English language proficiency received only 18% of available vaccines by March 1, the report said. See
