Fremont Business Park

Class A Office Space in Fremont, California

TEAM Christy: Mark Your Calendar for Thursday 7/22 at 12:00pm. Free Lunch!

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Welcome Back TEAM Members! We hope you enjoyed your “Fourth of July” holiday! The next TEAM Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, July 22nd at 12:00pm. Lunch will be provided, so please be sure to RSVP, for each member of your business that will be attending.

More information will follow on the Topic of the Discussion. We are confirming speakers and will announce details very soon. Please remember, if you would like to do a short presentation on your company or a topic that relates to a particular industry, please be sure to contact me and I would be more than happy to see how we can best work in your expertise/ideas!

TEAM Christy – Lunch Meeting
July 22nd 12-1pm
42840 Suite 208 – in the common conference room

Please RSVP to anna@borelli.com so we have an accurate count for lunch. Thank you!

StratApps Makes Strategic Move to Fremont Business Park

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At first, it just seemed like a coincidence.

As Fremont Business Park underwent its impressive $2 million renovation completely transforming the office space this past winter and new tenants started signing leases and moving in, the first few came from outside Fremont. Then, more tenants relocated from elsewhere. And still more followed.

Now, StratApps – a leader in the design and implementation of data warehouse and business intelligence solutions — has become the 15th new tenant to sign a lease for space at Fremont Business Park. And as was the case with 14 of the 15 previous tenants, StratApps will be moving into Fremont from a different city – in this case, Pleasanton.

What’s bringing all these dynamic, growing enterprises to the Christy Street office complex?

Smart Move to Silicon Valley Gateway
First, consider the location. Fremont Business Park is just off Auto Mall Parkway in southern Fremont. That puts businesses right on Silicon Valley’s doorstep – without paying typically higher Silicon Valley rents.

So for StratApps – which knows a thing or two about business intelligence – moving to Fremont Business Park was a smart decision. StratApps closes the “intelligence disconnect” that’s common with businesses that collect gigabytes or terabytes of data – and then don’t do anything with it. StratApps can work with virtually any platform – from Oracle to Business Objects – and can customize solutions for companies in any industry, from financial services to media and entertainment.

By the way, StratApps will occupy 1,449 sq. ft. in Building 42840 Christy St., Suite 206.

Shopping, Showers and Competitive Rents
There are a number of other reasons why Fremont Business Park has become one of the hottest office complexes in Northern California:

  • Close proximity to dining, shopping, and services at the Pacific Commons shopping center, literally just down the street
  • Onsite fitness facility, with showers
  • Micro-offices down to just over 350 sq. ft. and an array of amenities are a perfect fit for Executive Suites users – without the higher rents
  • Like-new interiors, exteriors, landscaping, and offices


Learn More About Fremont
In short, more and more companies are making the Christy Street complex in Fremont their new headquarters. Maybe you should at least take a tour of Christy Street and the City of Fremont?

E-mail Anna Mcquillan Rose for a tour, or call (408) 550-4826. DRE License #01368576

TEAM Christy Enjoys Insightful Field Trip to Uniforce

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On Thursday, June 24th, we had our second TEAM Christy meeting. This was a luncheon session to accommodate everyone’s busy schedules — and it was generally agreed that noon was a good time to meet.

Borelli Investment Company, which is developing the complex, supplied the lunches. After introductions by the members attending, it was time for our first field trip.

Yes, a field trip! The destination was the offices of TEAM Christy member Uniforce Sales and Engineering in the 42501 Albrae St. building, Suite 210.

Leader in Imaging for Business and Military Applications
Uniforce specializes in image acquisition, processing and video recording for a variety of industrial, medical, scientific, and military applications. The company supplies sophisticated cameras, frame grabbers, image-processing software, lenses, and lighting — as individual components or complete systems.

At Uniforce, Ben Castricone and his team had several demos set up. We saw how Uniforce relies on a Matrox Iris smart camera, frame grabber and software to inspect liquid levels in bottles. This can be used to pass/fail bottles on a production line.

Next, we watched as an Imperx Bobcat camera mounted on a tripod captured images for a highly technical-sounding process called blob analysis. I’m not joking! This process enables pharmaceutical companies to separate intact pills from broken ones. Another station verified that the pills were the right color before they were packaged.

Surveillance and Other Applications
As you might imagine, Uniforce’s precision imaging solutions also have important applications in surveillance. To illustrate, Ben and his team played images they had captured of us leaving the 42840 Christy Street building on our way to the Uniforce office for the demos. There we all were — in still-frame close-ups!

Throughout the tour, we saw images captured by Uniforce cameras in applications ranging from oceanography (a close-up of the Titanic’s propeller) and space exploration (an image of the space station, shot from a military satellite) to medicine (surgical close-ups) and nanotechnology (nano-sized cooling tubes for semiconductors). We also learned about recording systems that can operate at temperatures well below zero, and high-speed cameras that can slow down the droplets in an inkjet printer or a bullet hitting a Kevlar vest. You can see some photos from our visit in the Uniforce blog.

Don’t Miss the Next TEAM Christy Meeting
It’s said, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” But at TEAM Christy meetings, that’s simply not true. You get lunch and a great opportunity to network with fellow tenants in Fremont Business Park. This enables you to learn about members’ companies so you can refer business to them when appropriate — and get business referred to you in return.

If you are looking for quality office space and are interested in learning more about how you can become part of the dynamic Christy Street business community and TEAM Christy, e-mail Anna Mcquillan Rose or call (408) 550-4826. DRE License #01368576

Ideal Move-Up Plug ‘N Play Space Becomes Available at Christy Street

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One of the biggest headaches of growing your business is that when you move, you have to essentially start over. Just when you’ve become settled and comfortable in your initial 2,000 to 3,000 sq. ft. of space, you are forced to pull up stakes, find the right location, and then go through the whole process of furnishing your new offices, wiring them, and getting everything in place — before you and your people can be productive again.

That’s why — knowing a lot of business people check out this blog weekly — I wanted to share this news tidbit. An ideal move-up space has just become available at Fremont Business Park. And it’s practically plug ‘n play — with wiring for voice and data installed, and a selection of private offices together with existing cubicles, just waiting for you to move in and get to work.

Largest Space at Christy Street
Building 42840 Christy St., Suite 201 is a second-floor corner suite that at 5,809 sq. ft. represents the largest space available in the complex, without combining suites. The suite has the following:
• 11 private offices
• 14 furnished cubicles in open area
• Great glass lines
• Conference room
• Kitchen
• Pre-wiring for your phone system and data network

Suite 201 with cubicles
Suite 201 is Plug ‘N Play

And you get all that in what has become one of the hottest office complexes in the entire Bay Area — close to I-880 for easy commutes, and just down the street from a dozen and a half places to eat at Pacific Commons shopping center.

Want to know more? Better e-mail Anna Mcquillan Rose or call her today at (408) 550-4826. By the way, existing tenants who recommend a prospect that becomes a tenant get a generous finder’s fee for their efforts. Can’t beat that!

DRE License #01368576

CoaguSense Debuts New Home Care Device for Patients Using Oral Anticoagulants; Doubles Space at Christy Street

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More than four million patients in the U.S. are being treated with oral anticoagulants such as warfarin (Coumadin®) for a variety of clinical conditions such as dangerous blood clots, heart attacks, stroke, coronary artery disease, joint replacement, congestive heart failure, and cancer.

In the past, these patients had to make lab appointments to have their blood tested regularly to see if they were maintaining the proper clotting times, according to something called the Prothrombin Time/International Normalized Ratio (PT/INR). A tube of blood would be drawn using a large needle in the arm, which could be painful. And of course, this often created problems for patients who were on anti-clotting therapy in getting the bleeding stopped after the sample was taken.

Further, the sample then needed to be analyzed and the results reported to physicians before patients could be contacted and any adjustment made in their warfarin dosage.

For long-term warfarin users, lab visits typically were required every four to six weeks. This period of time was frequent enough to be inconvenient for patients, many of whom are elderly. At the same time, it was not frequent enough to ensure that patients stayed within the therapeutic range required to properly treat their medical condition.

Testing at Home or in the Doctor’s Office
On June 1st, CoaguSense Inc. — which is headquartered in Building 42840 Christy St., Suite 110 — emerged from stealth mode, with FDA approval of their groundbreaking portable, point-of-care medical system.

The CoaguSense PT/INR monitoring system is designed for home use by patients, or by physicians right in their offices, without requiring a separate trip by patients to a specialized lab. Medicare will now cover both treatment options.

With the CoaguSense system, a small finger stick is all that’s needed to produce a blood sample on a test strip. The system’s metering device then reads the sample and adjustments can be made by physicians instantly, minimizing the chance of clotting.

Talking with CoaguSense President and CEO Doug Patterson, I learned that administering anticoagulants such as warfarin or Coumadin has always carried significant risks for the medical community. “If a physician prescribes too high a level of warfarin to ensure clots don’t occur or reoccur, there’s a real risk of causing a hemorrhagic stroke due to excessive bleeding,” Patterson explained. “That could lead to a costly malpractice suit against the physician. But if too little is prescribed, then the patient will get blood clots. It’s critical the optimum therapeutic range is maintained — and that’s where our system can help.”

Christy Street Space Offers CoaguSense Extraordinary Flexibility
Founded in 2008, CoaguSense moved into 3,323 sq. ft. of space in 42840 Christy St. in early 2009. Patterson said the location in Fremont, close to the I-880 freeway, as well as services and dining in the Pacific Commons Shopping Center, was ideal for employees.

But what appealed most to Patterson was Christy Street’s flexibility to accommodate the expansion he envisioned for the company. CoaguSense just added 3,000 sq. ft. of space in the adjacent suite 112 — combining suites 112 and 110 into a single office with more than 6,300 sq. ft. That gives Patterson enough room for office purposes — and even to manufacture the test strips in a small facility that’s part of the Fremont space. Meter fabrication is outsourced.

“As a medical device company, we are certified not only by the State of California but also ISO under ISO 1345 guidelines,” said Patterson. “If we were to move, we would have to undergo the arduous certification process again. Having the flexibility to expand here at Christy Street is critical.”

This may prove even more critical going forward. Industry analysts estimate the patient self-testing market will grow by over 500% annually, from $100 million to $1 billion annually within five years!

Abbott Labs has signed an exclusive sales agreement to market the CoaguSense system nationwide. For more information about CoaguSense, visit the website. To find out more about the remaining spaces at Fremont Business Park at Christy Street, e-mail Anna Mcquillan Rose, or call her at (408) 550-4826. DRE License #01368576