San Jose’s Santana Row Completes Agreement With Car Charging Group for New EV Charging Stations

By Alex Girda, Associate Editor

The San Francisco Bay ended 2013 on an extremely high note for the local office market, offering great prospects for the area’s real estate market in 2014. To open the year, big green energy news emerged as Car Charging Group, Inc. announced a newly sealed agreement with Federal Realty Investment Trust to expand the availability of EV charging services at Santana Row. Car Charging Group operates at a national level and offers electric vehicle charging services to a wide variety of facilities.

The company is now set to expand the number of available electric car charging stations at the retail center in San Jose, the heart of the fast growing tech market of Silicon Valley. Santana Row is a 647,000-square foot mixed-use development project, one of the prime destinations for shopping and dining. The venue features 70 shops, 20 restaurants, a boutique hotel and a movie theatre. The mixed-use community of Santana Row also offers 615 luxury rental homes, and 65,000 square feet of Class A office space.

According to a recently issued press release, Car Charging Group will answer a growing demand for charging stations at Santana Row, and will continue to follow data it has been tracking since the initial stations installed at the project. Tracking its initial stations, Car Charging was able to determine that additional facilities would be in order at Santana Row. The new stations are located across from the first charging docks, on Level 1A of the Winchester parking garage.

The new chargers are provided by Level II EV charging stations, providing cars with 240 volts with 32 amps of power, that efficiently replenish an electric vehicle’s battery. Car Charging Group Inc. is based in Miami, and also operates out of offices in San Francisco, New York and Phoenix. The company is pushing for the wider adoption of public EV charging.