Two months after occupancy was planned for the LinkedIn campus located at Maude and Mathilda avenues, the six-story-tall buildings remain unoccupied.
Tenants were initially scheduled to move in September of this year.
In the meantime, neighbors of the 560,000-square-foot campus wait with bated breath for the traffic impacts to take effect.
“We have heard rumors that LinkedIn will not occupy the buildings,” said Dwight Davis, chairman of Sunnyvale Residents for Preserving and Enhancing Quality Neighborhoods. “We have sent a letter to the city, LinkedIn and Kilroy, the owner of the building, expressing our concerns last week. We are waiting to hear back.”
The LinkedIn campus stirred up a lot of grief for members of the SNAIL Neighborhood Association, which is bordered by N. Mathilda, E. Maude, and N. Fair Oaks avenues and Highway 101.
The project was approved in June 2012 with two notifications, according to the city. The first notice was for the planning commission and city council hearings in May and June 2012, respectively. The second notice was for the planning commission hearing on Nov. 12, 2012.
Davis said that for his own neighbors, the construction of the towering structure was their first and only notification. It was the looming structures that motivated the residents of Pine Avenue to form Sunnyvale Residents for Preserving and Enhancing Quality Neighborhoods, named after one of the city’s land use policies.
According to Sunnyvale communications officer Jennifer Garnett, however, LinkedIn has finalized its tenant improvements for Building D, which faces Maude Avenue, and is planning to move employees in soon.
“We will continue to grow in Sunnyvale, and will be moving into our fifth space, located at 605 Maude, in the near future,” Doug Madey, LinkedIn corporate communications manager, said in an email. “We do not have any additional information to share at this time.”
The 560,000-square-foot, four-building project has a five-level parking garage that will hold 1,640 cars as well as surface parking.
