Thats their HQ!! Bye-bye Fry's :(
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/15/huge-tech-campus-eyed-in-north-san-jose-at-frys-electronics-site/
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SAN JOSE — A huge tech campus that would bring north San Jose nearly 2 million square feet of new offices and bulldoze a shuttered Fry’s Electronics store faces a major step in the city review process.
The new campus would sprout at 550 E. Brokaw Road, which for years served as the corporate headquarters of Fry’s Electronics and most visibly, a Fry’s superstore with a theme akin to a Mayan temple.
“The project proposes to demolish the existing Fry’s Electronics building and surface parking lot and construct seven eight-story office towers in an office campus design,” according to the San Jose planning files.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/18/big-tech-campus-frys-store-north-san-jose-real-estate-office-develop/
If you can do your work at home in your PJs, some guy in India can do the same at 1/5th the price.
Fry's layoff Employees from Headquarters.
Fry’s Electronics, another well-known name, furloughed 57 workers. The job
titles involved in the WARN notice from Fry’s listed no retail clerk categories.
The biggest chunk of the job cuts at Fry’s consisted of 15 jobs lost in accounts
payable, accounts receivable, or payroll, a review of the WARN notice showed.
“The furlough end date is currently unknown and will depend on pandemic
developments, government orders in the interim, and Fry’s business needs,”
Randy Fry, president of the consumer electronics retailer, wrote in an April 13
letter to the EDD.
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2020 UPDATED: May 1, 2020
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-unemployment-bay-area-layoffs-oakland-athletics-monterey-bay-aquarium-tech-retail-restaurant-jobs-economy/
I hear you knocking...but you can't come in !
High density populated areas are not a good idea. Santa Clara county now has between 48,000 - 81-000 COVID cases. The largest in the Bay Area. Lets not turn into NY!! Another reason not to have HIGH DENSITY HOUSING!
We need to spread people out more instead of packing them like Sardines - way more healthier and more sane as well - F that high density BS -
Actually we need employers to enable more of their work force to work remotely. F high density housing. It only causes more problems and doesnt solve anything.
Fry's has been irrelevant for the past 8 years. We need high-density housing and we need it now.