Fremont Business Park

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Christy Street Welcomes Five New Tenants – Also Sees Three Renew and One Expand

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Fremont Business Park at Christy Street has gotten off to a fast start in 2011, welcoming five new tenants and retaining four more – with one of those four more than tripling the space it rents at the three-building complex.

The attraction for most businesses seems to be Christy Street’s like-new space, convenient Fremont location and added amenities such as monthly meetings of the unique TEAM Christy business-acceleration and executive leadership group. Here’s a closer look at the nine tenants recently signing at Christy Street.

Moving In

The five new tenants, representing a diversity of businesses, all moved into Building 42808 Christy Street.

The Art Blossom
The Art Blossom is an innovative and creative business that celebrates kids and their art. The company provides commercial-grade vinyl wall panels printed with any kind of original art. The removable, reusable vinyl panels will cling to any plain or textured wall and are perfect for families with kids, students in dorm rooms or renters. The company also offers other items that can be decorated with art such as mouse pads, greeting cards and even canvas bags. Special programs are available for schools interested in using classroom art for fundraising programs.

FineArt Albums
FineArt Albums provides professional photographers with comprehensive design, print and binding solutions – specializing in working with wedding photographers to create unique albums for brides. Photographers can send images on a CD or via online file transfer, and FineArt Albums takes it from there. Albums are hand-bound; all photo prints are meticulously glued into place, and photographers or their customers have a wide choice of covers in many styles. Materials range from leathers to acrylics or metals – with gilding or imprinting. The company also offers special services such as custom framing or mounting on Gatorboard, Fome-Cor, Plexiglas, or other materials.

Legacy CPA
Vince Cortese, CPA recently established the main office for Legacy CPA Inc. at Fremont Business Park. Legacy CPA offers a broad range of services in tax, accounting, retirement, and insurance planning for both businesses and individuals. The firm’s principals strive to be highly proactive and build long-term relationships with clients – providing the highest level of service from offices in Fremont, Pleasanton and Albany.

Siteworks General Engineering
Siteworks General Engineering offers quality engineering and site preparation services including excavation, grading and slope work; underground utilities; pavement maintenance and overlays; seal coating and striping; asphalt and asphalt repair; and concrete work. The company handles projects throughout Northern California – including the Sacramento area – from its offices at Christy Street.

Wing Tech
Wing Tech is a Maryland-based management and technology consulting firm that has located its West Coast offices at Fremont Business Park. The company applies cutting-edge decision theory and advanced systems analysis and risk management techniques to help its clients identify, quantify and manage risks and opportunities. Wing Tech specializes in working with companies in the medical technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, automotive, and aerospace industries.

Moving Up

Cognate
Cognate has relocated from 42808 Christy to 42840 Christy, more than tripling the space it rents in the process. Cognate provides end-to-end high-value IT staffing solutions for companies across the U.S. In addition, Cognate offers outsourced product development services for established independent software vendors (ISVs) and startups. The company also handles independent software testing, migration and support services.

Vote of Confidence

In addition to the above six tenants, Fremont Business Park recently signed lease renewals with three others located in Building 42840 Christy Street:

CoaguSense
CoaguSense has produced a groundbreaking new home care monitoring device for patients using the anticoagulant drug Coumadin®. With the CoaguSense system, a small finger stick is all that’s needed to produce a blood sample on a test strip – avoiding a trip to the blood draw lab or doctor’s office. The system’s metering device then reads the sample, and physicians can instantly make adjustments – minimizing the chance of clotting. CoaguSense offers the devices exclusively through Abbott and its network of distributors.

Cypher Media
Cypher Media is an online marketing firm that specializes in helping clients reach prospects and customers in channels such as organic search, paid search, display media, e-mail marketing, social networking, blogs, and affiliate marketing programs. The company carefully monitors where ads and messages are displayed and enforces best practices to ensure that all programs are compliant and adhere to SPAM regulations.

Dynatherm
Dynatherm Medical markets FDA-cleared products that take advantage of the body’s natural thermoregulatory anatomy to noninvasively manage the body’s core temperature. This helps avoid hypothermia during surgical procedures – from the pre-op holding area and the surgery suite to the post-anesthesia care unit. Using technology licensed from Dr. Dennis Grahn at Stanford University, Dynatherm has shown it can improve patient outcomes while decreasing healthcare costs.

Learn More

To learn more about why Fremont Business Park is very successfully bringing new businesses like these into its vibrant and fast-growing community when so many office complexes are dealing with massive vacancies, e-mail Lee Jatta, or call (408) 520-2437 x140.  DRE License #01828564

Employees Can Take BART and AC Transit to Fremont Business Park

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With the high cost of living in the Bay Area, many local businesses have difficulty finding the employees they need. Housing costs are often steep, and transportation can be both expensive and full of frustrating commutes.

A Bus Stop Right at the Corner
That is – unless your business is located at Fremont Business Park at Christy Street. Every 30 minutes or so, you’ll notice that the 212 AC Transit bus stops at the corner of Albrae and Christy. In other words, it’s like Fremont Business Park has its own personal bus service.


Where is the Southbound 212 AC Transit Bus coming from you ask? The Stevenson BART station. On weekdays, buses leave the BART station every 30 minutes from 5:53 a.m. until 8:23 p.m., stopping in front of the Christy Street office complex a little over 30 minutes later. Similarly convenient schedules run northbound to take employees back to BART.

And best of all, you don’t need to worry about rushing to the bus stop or having to wait 30 minutes for the next bus. From your PDA or laptop, you can click this handy bus tracker to see in real time when the next AC Transit 212 bus will arrive right at Fremont Business Park’s door! we’ve included a link to this bus tracker on the web site as well.

Tap Into a Plentiful, Skilled Labor Pool
The convenient access provided by BART and AC Transit enables companies located at Fremont Business Park to tap into an enormous pool of highly educated and skilled labor up and down the entire East Bay – or even into San Francisco or the Tri-Valley area, wherever BART reaches.

When you add this to Fremont Business Park’s other location benefits: convenient to 1-880; easy access to the East Bay, South Bay or even the Peninsula by car; close to entertainment, dining and shopping at the Pacific Commons shopping center, literally a walk down the street; a choice of dealerships for car service a little over a mile away at Fremont Auto Mall – it’s hard to beat Fremont Business Park for helping you attract and keep quality employees.

To learn more about what makes Fremont Business Park at Christy Street the perfect location for your business, contact Lee Jatta, or call (408) 520-2437 x140. DRE License #01828564

Many TEAM Christy members have asked about a shuttle service to the BART station. Please answer our poll question (in the right margin of the blogsite) or let Lee know your thoughts.

Teamwork Pays Off for TEAM Christy Members

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Fremont Business ParkTEAM Christy is a unique business acceleration and networking group, created exclusively for tenants at Fremont Business Park at Christy Street. Offered free of charge by the partnership that owns and manages the office complex, the group’s objective is to enable businesses located at Christy Street to compete more effectively in a challenging economic climate.

The group meets monthly, guided by a certified chairman from Vistage International, the world’s leading organization for CEOs. Vistage helps develop enhanced leadership and decision-making skills for attendees. But equally important, TEAM Christy members make connections at these meetings with other businesses down the hall or in the next building – and these connections can result in new business for one or both parties.

TEAM Christy Success Stories
Already, a number of businesses in Fremont Business Park are reporting that they’ve acquired new business from introductions made through the monthly TEAM Christy meetings:

• Codeminders – an IT boutique consulting team in 42840 Christy St., Suite 230, specializing in bleeding edge technologies – contracted with Uniforce Sales and Engineering in 42501 Albrae St., Suite 210 for essential engineering studies and the creation of a prototype in a new product area.

• Ontara Corporation – an IT service provider that specializes in server-based networks, network security and disaster planning and recovery – was selected to work with Fremont Business Park itself to implement the building’s high-speed, fiber optic Internet service for tenant subscribers.

• LNT Business Solutions – which provides a wide range of services including bookkeeping, income tax preparation, notary, and immigration services or related matters – has also won significant business from TEAM Christy members.

Next TEAM Christy Meeting is Thursday, January 13th
TEAM Christy’s first meeting of the year is Thursday January 13th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch is included, and again, there’s no charge or obligation for becoming part of the TEAM. This is simply an additional service offered by Borelli Investment Company for tenants.

It’s critical that you make the time to kick off 2011 properly by capitalizing on the competitive advantages to be gained by being part of TEAM Christy.

Thursday, January 13th: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
(Check-in at 10:45)
TEAM Christy Luncheon and Meeting
Owners/CEOs Invited • RSVP to Lee

 

Regards,
TEAM Christy

Happy Holidays from Fremont Business Park!

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As all eyes turn skyward to catch a glimpse of that jolly old man in the fur-trimmed red suit, we at Fremont Business Park think it’s time for a look back at 2010 and all that we have to be thankful for this year.

Fremont Business ParkTo be honest, 2010 didn’t start off very well. If you’ll recall, the dust and noise from Christy Street’s extensive $2 million makeover was a bit of a nuisance. And on the economic front, the financial markets started downhill about as fast as a sleigh slides off a snow-covered roof. Things didn’t look good.

But by the time the winter rains had ended, not only had the markets started back up again, but the all-encompassing renovation was also complete. Inside and out, Fremont Business Park was like new. New formal tiled entries. New hallways. New doors and signage for the individual suites. New smaller offices to accommodate businesses just starting out. Upgraded restrooms. New conference room. New fitness facility with showers. ADA upgrades. New roof on Building 42840 Christy St. New paint. New landscaping. Resurfaced parking lot. New monument signage. Whew!!

And as they say in that baseball movie, once it was built, they did come. And they kept coming. Several new tenants had already moved in before the official grand re-opening in April. And a steady stream of businesses have continued to make Christy Street their home ever since.

TEAM Christy Created a Connected Business Community
In May, the first meeting of TEAM Christy Street was held. TEAM Christy offers each business within Fremont Business Park the opportunity to make business connections with their neighbors and to network in ways that simply aren’t commonplace in typical business complexes. Members are even provided the opportunity to gain additional exposure for their businesses by contributing to this blog!

Over the past eight months, TEAM Christy participants have referred leads to one another and even done business together. And in the Fall, Sterling Lanier, a chairman with Vistage International – the world’s leading CEO organization – got involved with TEAM Christy to add leadership development activities to the value received at each meeting.

High-Speed Internet Service
In September, Fremont Business Park completed an upgrade to the building’s fiber optic infrastructure and began offering the area’s fastest dedicated Internet service – without the slowdowns that can occur when other services pass through a central office. And the monthly costs offer significant savings over most business plans!

Then in October, TEAM Christy members got to meet business people from Borelli Investment Company’s other Building Business Network teams – TEAM Club Auto Sport and TEAM Junction. Members of the three TEAMS gathered and shared experiences at a special mixer before the inaugural concert in the Club Auto Sport Music Series.

And now, 50 blogs and 15,000 words later, here we are in the holiday season. What a year! From all of us at Borelli Investment Company and Fremont Business Park, we wish you and yours the happiest holiday season and a healthy and prosperous 2011!

If we can do anything for you or your business associates, please don’t hesitate to contact Lee Jatta, or call (408) 453-4700 x140. DRE License #01828564

Fremont Mini-Trends, American Megatrends and More

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As the uneven economic recovery continues in the U.S., a bright piece of news came last week from Colliers International, one of the world’s leading commercial real estate firms. In the third quarter of 2010, the U.S. office market absorbed 6.5 million sq. ft. of space, compared with 1.8 million sq. ft. in the second quarter.

According to the Colliers report, San Francisco was one of the top-performing markets along with Washington, D.C. and New York City. In the Bay Area, not surprisingly, the expansion of technology-based businesses was a primary driving factor for absorption. And as previously noted in this blog, the Fremont area continues to be a particularly strong technology submarket fueling the San Francisco Bay Area absorption trends.

Two Businesses Extend Leases at Fremont Business Park
Recently, two members of the TEAM Christy business community signed significant extensions of their leases at Fremont Business Park.

American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) – For the past 25 years, AMI has been a leader in creating key hardware and software solutions for the global computer marketplace. Headquartered in Atlanta, AMI boasts a number of industry firsts, such as: building motherboards based on Intel 386, 486 and Quad-Xeon processors, working with the de facto industry standard BIOS interface, developing industry-leading RAID and storage solutions, and more. At Fremont Business Park, AMI has extended its lease on 6,150 sq. ft. of space in Building 42808 Christy Street.

embedUR Systems – embedUR Systems is an engineering services company that develops reliable, scalable, high-performance software for embedded systems – especially in the telecom and data networking, automated test, process control, and embedded service markets. The company has offices in the U.S. and India, and has extended its lease for 2,400 sq. ft. of space at Fremont Business Park.

CoMira Solutions Moves Across the Bay
Fremont Business Park also welcomes a new tenant to the complex. CoMira Solutions has relocated from Los Altos, occupying 600 sq. ft. of space in 42501 Albrae Street at Fremont Business Park.

CoMira engineers are involved in many aspects of electronic product design and development based on multiple system-on-a-chip (SoC)-supported platforms. The company also creates and licenses intellectual property, and provides engineering consulting to clients worldwide.

Space Is Moving Fast
The Colliers report noted that with development of new office space virtually non-existent across the U.S., as a market such as Fremont gains momentum, available space will go fast – and that means lease rates are likely to rise as demand increases relative to supply. So don’t wait. There’s still a good selection of spaces at Fremont Business Park. But if you’re interested in making a move, e-mail Lee Jatta right away, or call him at 408-520-2437 x140. DRE License #01828564