Reader's Photos: Netflix Breaks Ground For Future Campus

Los Gatos government officials, developer John R. Shenk and leaders from Internet streaming giant Netflix held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday, Oct. 3 for its future campus in town.

Los Gatos photographer Natalie Ladd was there to capture the action and shared these great photos with us of the ceremony. Thank you, Natalie!

The new Class-A office center will be located on the site of the old Los Gatos Business Park at the intersection of Albright Way and Winchester Boulevard.

Holding sledgehammers, officials broke small concrete slabs at the construction site where Los Gatos Business Park, the property owner, hopes to build the first part of the project, two buildings totaling 242,500 square feet to be completed by 2015.

Netflix has outgrown its current location at 100 Winchester Circle where about 1,000 employees labor on a daily basis.

The company has signed lease agreements for two of the four buildings that are part of the project, a joint venture between Sand Hill Property Co. and the Carlyle Group.

Shenk said bulldozers begun in late August tearing down some of the old buildings located in the old business park.

"It is a great day for Los Gatos. The vast majority of residents that supported this project are pleased to learn that it is moving forward," Shenk told Los Gatos Patch recently.

Shenk said he would be demolishing seven of 10 existing buildings on the property.

The Council on June 3 voted 4-1 in favor of a smaller version of the project reducing it from the proposed 550,000 square feet to 485,000.

Two of its four buildings' heights were lowered from four stories, or 65 feet, to three stories, or 50 feet.

One of the lowered buildings was the one closest to Highway 85 and the current Netflix campus.

The project's originally proposed three-story parking garage will also be capped at 35 feet, with the option of going underground, the Council voted.