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Real Estate Tech firms are moving to expanded facilities



Real Estate: AMCC, Titan Among Those Expanding

Bay Area tech companies are plugging into San Diego real estate, while locally based counterparts are staking out space near Interstate 15.

Three of the companies are leasing.

But a fourth, San Diego-based Applied Micro Circuits Corp., has purchased 31 acres in the South Poway Business Park.

AMCC is paying $17 million for the land, according to a spokesman.

It will be at least two years before the company completes an initial phase of the Poway building project and moves in, said AMCC spokesman Bill Berridge.

“We expect it to be more of a manufacturing facility over there,” he said.

AMCC has several buildings in the Mira Mesa area. One is brand new. The company makes products for optical networking.

AMCC’s plans call for 521,000 square feet of space in Poway, divided among buildings of 90,000 square feet, 120,000 square feet and 311,000 square feet, Berridge said. The company has not decided which phase will go up first, he said.

Nearby on the Interstate 15 corridor, 3Com Corp. is in the middle of a move.

The Santa Clara-based company is transferring its carrier research and development division from Carmel Mountain Ranch to the Scripps Northridge Technology Plaza, southwest of Poway.

Lankford & Associates Inc., the San Diego-based developer of the plaza, said 3Com has a six-year lease on 27,000 square feet of space. A developer representative said the company will use the space for engineering and offices.

3Com makes products for computer and telecom networks.

Also taking up residence in the center will be San Diego-based Titan Corp. and its VisiCom subsidiary. Titan has signed a five-year lease for 31,500 square feet, according to the developer, and plans a move in mid-May. The space will be used for offices and engineering development.

VisiCom provides hardware, software and system engineering for commercial and military clients.

Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for Palo Alto-based Sun Microsystems, Inc. said her company has followed through on its stated plans to expand into an additional 63,000 square feet of leased space near University Towne Centre in March.

Sun now occupies 190,000 square feet, said spokeswoman Diane Carlini, and will move into another 63,000 square feet in May.

A majority of the local Sun employees are in the company’s Enterprise Systems Products group, which deals with high-end computer servers.

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